Is it normal to refer to Taiwanese RAM manufacturers as “Western”?

I’m glad they distinguish it from China obviously, but calling G.Skill and MSI Western feels kinda weird.

Waiting 3 minutes stops me from using a site. If it’s something I really need I’ll check back in an hour or two, when hopefully it’s not getting hammered; the same for both approaches.

It would be better to serve a static page saying “the server is getting hammered really hard”, and, if possible, context about the duration of the current event and historical frequency.

The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable

So uh anyone anyone gonna tell them the idea was wrong? Three minutes is not ignorable.