For the past year or so, our fast download server has sometimes been known as more of a slow download server. This is the server that you download all the game materials, models, maps, etc. from, and without one it would be painfully slow to join and download anything. The old server was fine when only a few players were downloading from it, but it only had a 250 Mbps connection which could easily get saturated if a lot of players were trying to download at once. We decided to address this by moving to a new server with a much faster network - 10,000 Mbps. The info-graphic below shows what this mostly means for players. This will result in faster join times which should help the server population, and quicker downloads on everything (especially when testing new maps).
That would negate the join time improvements so we're still going to aim for smaller sized skins. We could maybe add another, or swap some old ones out (whatever's least popular). Temporary holiday skins are a possibility too.
This applies to all servers. They're currently on the old fastdl server right now though while the new one undergoes some maintenance.