Imagine a floppy disk based old server surviving “Hug of deaths” while the latest react based static website hosted on Kubernetes for infinite scalability on baremetal dies in like 5 sec.
Imagine indeed. This has been suffocated already it seems. Images can't even finish loading.
It stayed alive as long it could start going black carbon, much longer than others I think.
Images do not fully load but here I am 35 minutes after you and the website still responds. That's already better than many.
The blame would be on baremetal server. They would move to AWS with multi region EKS clusters and RDS with cross-region disaster recovery. And a multi-cloud strategy is also in place..
And edge caching on cloudflare or cloudfront.
Well, edge caching would almost certainly be enough with a decently high TTL. You don't need all that other junk :)