Man, I was getting really frustrated using PeakD. It has been erroring left and right. Slow. And really frustrating for me. Well, I randomly got a ping from 
He knows this because he was bench marking performance using peakd's benchmark tool: https://beta.peakd.com/me/tools/benchmark
Here were his results!
Now this is dependent on geography too so I went and tested it from the USA.
A couple things came from this. I saw that my current node was erroring, and that's likely why PeakD wasn't working, and I still had one of the fastest nodes even from the States. So, I changed the node I'm using with PeakD to the hived.hive-engine.com one that I run and now it's blazing fast.
So, if you're having a slow day using PeakD you can change things:
Hive is in the top 50 coins. Prices are doing good. There's no reason why a top witness shouldn't be running a full node. I'm not even in the top 20 and I started running one when it was still 10 cent Hive.
Currently only half of the top 20 run one. These guys are taking thousands of dollars from the reward pool as a witness and a bunch of them are taking thousands more from proposals and can't bother themselves to run some fucking infrastructure to help the chain. For real? Really?
There's no steemit inc that we can all rely on, and if a non-dev like me can do the system ops necessary to run a full node then the Top 20 getting paid 300+ hive a day should be able to run one as well!!!
Please rearrange your witness votes according to who is actually supporting the network. Here's a list of nodes: http://hivekings.com/nodes
hived.hive-engine.com (
anyx.io (
hived.privex.io (
api.hivekings.com (
api.openhive.network (
api.pharesim.me (
api.hive.blog (
rpc.esteem.app (
api.followbtcnews.com 
rpc.ausbit.dev 
Here's the top 20: https://hive-db.com/witnesses
If you're going to rent a server for a witness node or for a full node I strongly recommend using Privex. The support and help is awesome and the servers have been great. They are admittedly a little over the cost of the cheapest servers out there, but those guys don't know shit about Hive where as Someguy literally wrote the guide on how to run it! Use my referral code and we both save money.
