Hi!
Have you been paying attention lately; our costs and our traffic are growing exponentially.
Not forever.
Users will be extremely unhappy when we are not able to continue to provide our service.
We can continue the service at our current service levels.
They are used to our service not being the fastest around.
Of course, and Pompeii is still visited by tourists too.
Why would a node that is close by be dead ??
It is HTTP. It is designed to throw error messages ASAP.
NB when our customers find the argument "it's cheaper for us" not a good one, they have to realise that they are not paying customers. TANSTAAFL
They pay attention.