Neither box3 nor the normal server are working for me now, though box3 worked earlier. Box3 was slow, but it worked...
Wasn't the server going to be moved over the the European one eventually anyway? It seems like a problem to be having the data on a different server to the main server, so I think that would be a priority if you were going to switch.
I don't see why there is any reason to switch over to the European server temporarily though. I thought DNS changes usually took a while (a day or so) to process anyway, so I don't think it would work to solve the problem in the short term.
These forums seem kinda slow too. But that might just be me.