Can someone explain why nhc.noaa.gov has been consistantly slow?

It is fair to assume that they have had particularly high level of traffic recently due to the recent exceptional weather events.
But possibly, 99% of the time their traffic is not so high, or not beyond what their servers can easily handle.
So can they justify the expense of more/faster servers to handle larger amounts of traffic just for the 1% of the time when they get a exceptionally high level of traffic?

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