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> The overall traffic quickly snowballed from a couple of terabytes per day to 10-20 times that amount.

A 1000Mbps server could only serve 10.8TB, and that's not even accounting for overhead/daily usage patterns/etc

You're missing three orders of magnitude.

The last copy of the .txt file saved by the WayBackMachine is 1.4MB:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220901000327if_/https://easyli...

If you're getting a 330KB file, maybe the server issues are causing the download to fail?

It’s not really the serving that’s the issue - it’s the amount of bandwidth used… in the case of serving simple content (like txt) bandwidth is always going to be the expensive element