I believe the Dev mailing list may have some of your technical answers https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2016-May/thread.html
It appears from that list that the database servers are now a few hundreds of miles from where the web servers are, causing the increase in latency. I do not know if this is a permanent change, the thread on osm-dev does seem to indicate that things are still in flux. Tim On 13 May 2016 at 06:02, Ben Discoe <bdis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Several of us have noticed radically slowly upload speed for > changesets, roughly since the server move on May 9. Like, as > painfully slow as it used to be, it's now several times slower. > > It's been discussed with @OSM_Tech on twitter, in this thread: > https://twitter.com/OSM_Tech/status/730857486618664960 > > Before I get too hysterical, can somebody tell me what happened, and > can it be fixed? > > OSM_Tech's mysterious message: > "Large uploads will take around 3 times longer. Small uploads extra > delay should be minimal." > > Does this mean that something did change? It is database writes that > are taking so much longer? Changesets with as few as 400 object are > taking several times longer, what constitutes "large" vs. "small"? > Can it be fixed? Can I donate large sums of money somewhere to help > it get fixed? > > Thanks, > Ben > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk