I had the same type of issues and it turned out that it was my java version giving me troubles. Every tp or /home took about 20 sec to load. One time I was in a pvp fight with lego and he killed me and we went back to spawn and I saw the loading dirt-screen the entire time.

possible other steps to troubleshoot:

• Check what java you have and make sure it’s updated ( Java SE 13.0.2 is the latest  release for Java SE Platform. Java  SE 11.0.6 is the latestrelease for JDK 11. Java SE 8u241 is the latest release for JDK 8 /  13.0.2 didnt work for me , so rn I am running on SE 8u241 )
• do a traceroute or ping to see how fast your your pc can reach mc.piratemc.com ( my pc ping was 132 but ingame ping was 3k …. so I figured it was my program rather than my actual connection)
• try a different dns server ( use Google: 8.8. 8.8 & 8.8. 4.4. or  Quad9 9.9.9.9 & 149.112.112.112 or Cloudfare 1.1.1.1 & 1.0.0.1 )
• reboot your router ( sometimes it works)

Good luck ,

Baz

1. I changed hosts on August 28th 2019, there was no issues until recently, I have changed your click bait title.
2. Only in the last month or so I have had problems being reported, which coincides with poor weather conditions in America (Snow) if you are unaware all weather can affect internet connections.
3. You have not sent a trace route to see where your internet is slowing down in connecting to the server.
4. You have not sent a speedtest to show us your internet speed
5. You have NOT changed your client render distance down to its lowest setting, as I said in my initial post when I DOUBLED the render distance, put it back to low.
6. I have had a lot of users recently somehow using the wrong version of Java, Minecraft uses the bundled Java version 1.8. 0_51, anything apart from this causes MASSIVE network issues, there have been Java updates recently, Check you are using the Built in Java with Minecraft not the system Minecraft.
   
7. If you read the Discord channel #suggestions_chat go back to the 15th January where I am trying to diagnose client based load from high impact areas like the market, there is a large discussion about this.
8. You haven’t tried the IP 148.251.41.188 to see if this is DNS related.

As this is a RECENT issue, and we are still using the same OS/Server Location/Minecraft version/There are no massive changes to plugin to change network, Then its a network issues, either from your ISP/DNS/Location/Weather/Network from USA->Germany somehow has changed, again as you haven’t been doing trace routes its impossible to see what’s going on from your end.

With absolutely 0 troubleshooting information, There is nothing I can do to help.

Its not global to the whole of America as you have stated, as I have Analytics’s for everyone’s pings recorded regularly, its odd users, as I said once you have reported some troubleshooting we can see what you all have in common, if you are all from the same State, using the same ISP etc.

And why have you posted your network issues in bugs and glitches?

This post made me finally make this, it’s not finished

How to fix Minecraft lag