Really long first byte/initial connection

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It seems I’m getting really long first byte/initial connection times (40s+ or timing out) but only when testing from los angeles, I’ve run dozens of tests over the last few days and the issue only seems to happen for the LA test. I currently use cloudflare, so i wonder if it could be an issue with the CF datecenter that is serving my site there?

http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110710_2J_111T3/
http://www.webpagetest.org/result/110710_WW_111YD/

Any ideas?

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My guess is that it is related to this: http://twitter.com/#!/CloudFlareSys/status/89743287166042113

Though they followed up a bit later and said that it was mitigated. Maybe there are some lingering issues. It wouldn’t hurt to ping their support team and check.

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Yep, looks like they had an attack in LA this morning: http://twitter.com/#!/CloudFlareSys/status/90085046853177344

Should be resolved now: http://twitter.com/#!/CloudFlareSys/status/90096630753263616

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Yeah, appears to be back to normal. Thanks Patrick.