@manovotny yup. Don’t avoid the highways unless you truly need to use them. The pain of insane growth.

@rmccue thanks in advance 🙂

@rmccue could you run a traceroute & e-mail it in to support@wordpress.com mentioning me in the subject? I’m off today but want to check it.

@rmccue What in particular? The little I checked on my phone didn’t strike me as slow.

@Michele_Butcher beta 1 can be downloaded via the Other Versions section of wordpress.org/plugins/jetpac… or with the Jetpack Beta Testing plugin!

@Michele_Butcher 2.9 will be out soon (w/i next cpl weeks) & include a Related Posts module that is low on resources (shared host friendly).