Other UK roleplayers - problem with lagging?

[spectacular_silver]

I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum to post this but I wasn't sure where else to ask. 

So I've been rather inactive due to real life problems, but I keep meaning to get back into roleplaying again. Today I tried to log in multiple times, and the page took forever to load. I just couldn't log in no matter how long I waited or how often I refreshed the page. 

However, as soon as I used a VPN and changed my location to another country, it seemed to work completely fine. Now the pages load very quick and everything is working. Is there some sort of issue with ecchidreams being blocked or ISPs in the UK making it load slow? Anyone else had this problem? 

Also, any mods here have any advice?