You currently have - DATABASE_PRIVATE_URL="${{Postgres.DATABASE_URL}}"
Change that to DATABASE_PRIVATE_URL="${{Postgres.DATABASE_PRIVATE_URL}}"

> My question is, could the connection via the non-private URL be the reason for the slow response

Theres really no good way to know without any tracing in your application code.

But with 1-1.5 second response times, theres likely some bad code somewhere, tracing will help here, without tracing, it's going to be very hard to debug if you don't know what your code is doing.

Thanks, but Postgres.DATABASE_URL and Postgres.DATABASE_PRIVATE_URL are the same url. Is that typical?

They are most definitely not, what makes you think that?

Well b/c mine our the same (when I reveal them). This is why if I change DATABASE_PRIVATE_URL to ${{Postgres.DATABASE_PRIVATE_URL}}" I am not sure that will make a difference b/c Postgres.DATABASE_URL and Postgres.DATABASE_PRIVATE_URL are unfortunately same. This is why I was wondering originally if I could find out what the original private URL was or update it to a new one. Thanks!

They are not the same values, I have verified this myself on your Postgres database.

Please show me where you see the same values for those two variables.

Thanks for your help! I was able to make the update. It does seem a bit odd, however, that when I reveal the values for those two variables, the revealed values that are displayed appear to be the same for my Postgres instance. I really do appreciate your speedy replies and help! Thank you!

I've just checked again on your postgres database, they are not the same values.