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As far as my attempts are concerned their server was always overloaded. If they were serving the files from AWS (or similar) now perhaps they could have managed
by shib71 16y ago
As far as my attempts are concerned their server was always overloaded. If they were serving the files from AWS (or similar) now perhaps they could have managed a page like this themselves.
- lrm242 16y agoThen don't use THEIR service? Effectively DoS'ing the site isn't the answer. They weren't arbitrarily slowing things down just to piss you off. Like the OP said, they probably served so few because that's all they could handle.
- shib71 16y agoTrue. My point was that serving static files is one of the easiest parts of a website to scale.