Question: I swear that for the past couple of weeks or so the speed of responses on serverfault.com has really degraded from what it used to be. Is it time to beef that site up a little?

Answer: 
Are you sure it's nothing at your end? I've noticed no difference here.
Where are you located?

I'm in Sydney, Australia and for the last 10 months I've had speed issues with the site - it's so "normal" now that I don't even notice them.

See my [meta.stackoverflow question here](https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/92452/cdn-sstatic-net-is-slowing-down-initial-page-loads) - there's a lot of info on how to diagnose CDN issues in the answers.