I do agree that a central location in a city that does not have an over-worked fiber-optic system would have been a better choice then moving them to said over-worked city... that is not in a central location...
"Over-worked fiber-optic system" ...
Anyway, putting aside the fact that this isn't a series of tubes that get cluttered and we have to use Drain-O to clean the internet tubes out, someone run ten or so tracerts from California on different providers, to Chicago, then do it in Edmonton, Alberta, then in Dallas, Texas. Once that's done, do all the same tests, and run it into a Texas server from the InterNAP bandwidth network, and tell me about equality, and central locations.
I don't want to sound mean here, so I'm going to stop fucking talking.
Yes, the servers had a semi-fatal operating system error, the developers and the server provider are working asap to bring them back online, sorry for the inconvenience.