Hosting on a single VPS is never gonna be very fast globally no matter what you pay your hosting. In fact our free plan on netlify would make this a whole lot faster...
It's still pretty fast all over the world, because that total time is all you need. For most sites, that three seconds is just the start, ensued by several more seconds of downloading CSS, JavaScript, images, analytics, widgets, and whatnot.
It is. Linode's Atlanta data center has been getting DDoS'd on and off since Sunday. This site isn't hosted on Linode, but could there perhaps be congestion in Atlanta from that attack causing general slowness?
https://performance.sucuri.net/domain/varvy.com
Hosting on a single VPS is never gonna be very fast globally no matter what you pay your hosting. In fact our free plan on netlify would make this a whole lot faster...