Ask HN: What's up with the site being slow?

Cache appears to be cold:

  ubuntu@ip-172-31-65-138:~$ time curl -si 'https://news.ycombinator.com/newest?next=18651706&n=181' >/dev/null
  
  real	0m19.139s
  user	0m0.012s
  sys	0m0.003s

  ubuntu@ip-172-31-65-138:~$ time curl -si 'https://news.ycombinator.com/newest?next=18651706&n=181' >/dev/null
  
  real	0m0.357s
  user	0m0.015s
  sys	0m0.000s

I was playing the, "Is it my third world internet or HN" game for a second.

13 seconds for the initial response, that's pretty brutal

Its back to its usual speed now. real 0m0.012s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.001s

Yep, was quite slow there for a bit.

Ooph, super slow here too...

Yep, super slow for me too.