I'm sure that they wanted to push the concept to the maximum with the Internet archive by making the download speed like in the 90s to give you the archives vibes
Holy fucking shit
Some of it is architecture, some of it is not being on on Amazon or Google servers because they will make us take down random things or make weird choices, and some of it is just weird peering
One situation we deal with is that because things feed from 2 different servers, particularly popular or overwanted massive files will slow down the other millions of files on the same server rack