No I don't think so, it would have lagged immediately upon implementation. I didn't receive the lag until hours later and when I was on Hellblock. I then disconnected because of the lag but couldn't rejoin due to the ping, I checked skyblock.net and same problem. I assume it was a problem stemming from the hosting company but there seems to be no problem now.
Yeah I only noticed because I had logged off to see if it would fix it then saw both with red X's. Resolved now anyway..