Rugger, I believe I mentioned in the other thread that the CI's have been greatly reduced but aren't gone. Not sure what everybody else is experiencing because I haven't been on much due to my high ping. The CI's have dropped off quite a bit on all servers as far as I can tell, not just the new one. I think the CI issue is something that all hosting companies are experiencing right now. I have a couple other clan servers loaded up on my HLSW just to watch the latency and they're seeing the same thing we are, regardless of mod or hosting company.
As I look at my HLSW screen while I type this (early Monday morning), all of our COD2 servers have a flat line with no CI's of any kind. That probably has more to do with reduced traffic on the web than anything else. Since you have started the new server my ping on there hasn't gone below 100 and is usually around 150 with frequent spikes over 300, but right now it's down in the mid 70's, again probably due to reduced traffic.
I want the DM server to work well for the majority of people who play there. For all of the years I've been with XI I have always experienced a higher ping than most other players and I've dealt with it. If the ping stays high for me then I'll just play when I can on XI and hang out on TDM or other game servers with a lower ping. In the mean time lets hope that the changes you've made work for our regular players so they have all of the features they want with a steady ping.