I'm also an I.T. Professional, work in the "biz", and have a clue as to what I'm talking about.
Maybe they are hosting it off a 1995 era, out-of-service thin-node with 512MB of RAM and an old OS version with limited file caching? LOL Just kidding... because then performance would suck generally.
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Just kidding... because then performance would suck generally.