We have moved to a new more powerful server which is around 20x faster than the old one.
It
is located in the Germany now (old one was in the US), therefore
connection speed might be slightly different, depending on where in the
world you are, however on average this should be faster for everyone.
We
have also ported our server software from Windows to Linux which makes
our server fees smaller and will future-proof our technology. Everything
considered what happened today will allow this game run for another
decade or so.