We have been in the process of moving our sites to a US based server, as opposed to the UK based servers they were being hosted on. While we have nothing against the UK servers, this was done primarily based on cost, convenience and overall performance.

In the past, this site was hosted on a largerly shared server. Now the site resides on better servers with considerably less sites.

This has given the site load times a considerable boost in performance. The change took place over the holiday weekend, as I hope you all spent time with your families instead of being online all weekend.