[thoraway1010]

Scaling a static website involves far less technical knowledge than scaling a high politics / moderate complexity scientific process.

The website looks terribly designed from a scaling standpoint. Have you run even a basic google pagespeed on it? Why no cache TTL on the custom TrueType font? Why no CDN backing?

This is a bit random, but if you have a "proud" web developer who "knows best" find someone with no pride who can get this sort of thing done.

We believe google can scale in part because they seem to be able return web search / autocomplate / google assistant responses pretty quickly.

[csomar]

The skills required for these fields are very different. They hired someone to do it.