[Dylan16807]

If I want to tell my friends about a new post, I want several of them to be able to click the link at the same time! And not feel like they're walking through mud.

This isn't about getting tons of nines of uptime, this is about people enjoying the page a strong majority of the time they're visiting. That needs a certain amount of speed unless it's a super lightweight page.

[superkuh]

It's not like when you post a link in a chat they all load it at the exact same time. It's spread out over a minute or few. I'm currently on a relatively slow Comcast connection with 5 megabits/s upload and it works just fine for hosting and posting links for several (or more) people to look at.