@alex I just realized I had never seen https://emacswiki.org down until now, a testament to the robustness of your setup and the size of the hit you (and everybody else like @corbet) are taking now.
Question: long-term, is there a "CDN" solution to this? Decentralized, like all content are #MagnetURI - the Bittorrent seeder rations bandwidth by design, and genuine clients of a popular website end up getting it via peers.