[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #3401: Experiencing degraded download speeds on updates and plugin installations

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#3401: Experiencing degraded download speeds on updates and plugin installations
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 Reporter:  hetznerws  |      Owner:
     Type:  defect     |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal     |  Milestone:
Component:  General    |   Keywords:
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 I represent a large hosting provider in South Africa(Hetzner ZA), hosting
 around 70.000 WP installations. Over the past week we have been
 experiencing intermittent degradation when our clients attempted to either
 update their installation or when installing new plugins. When testing the
 download speed dropped as low as 20KB/s during peak business hours in
 South Africa.

 Below you will find an MTR rest from one of our server, we did not detect
 any fluctuation with Ping or Traceroute tests while the degraded download
 speeds were being experienced.

  Host                                                      Loss%   Snt
 Last   Avg  Best  Wrst StDev
  1. 197.221.12.1                                           0.0%    18
 2.9   2.0   1.1   5.1   1.0
  2. 41.204.206.37                                          0.0%    18
 0.4   0.5   0.2   1.6   0.2
  3. 41-66-133-1-2.WC-RO-HET-MEE-1AE-0-4007.africainx.net   0.0%    18
 0.3   2.0   0.3  19.5   4.5
  4. core.xe-1-1-0-nl-am-eqx-dce-1.nl.africainx.net         0.0%    17
 202.3 205.0 202.2 230.7   7.2
  5. 176.56.179.139                                         0.0%    17
 202.5 203.8 202.5 206.6   1.3
  6. 9-1.r0.102.1w.la.ca.us.iptp.net                        0.0%    17
 348.4 349.4 348.4 357.6   2.2
  7. peer1network.as13768.any2ix.coresite.com               0.0%    17
 350.5 350.9 350.5 352.2   0.0
  8. 66.155.40.250                                          0.0%    17
 348.9 349.1 348.8 350.5   0.4

 This appears to be rate limiting, but we can not be sure and hope that you
 will be able to provide a bit more information. We were also wondering if
 there is a possibility of configuring a CDN for wordpress.org on our
 servers in South Africa to act a local distribution point serving the
 African market.

 Regards,
 Weber

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