Not true. It's a result of hardware limitations.
Do you know what it takes to connect a private server farm to the internet ? Do you know how many 'connections' it allows ?
I'll make it simpler. What happens when there is a panic on buying gasoline and everyone goes to the pumps at the same time ?
Are the long lines the fault of the gas station for not having 100 pumps instead of 8 ?
FR is hosted at NTT Communications (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation) in the San Jose/Santa Clara CA area. Jim & John’s private server in their data center with NTT’s bandwidth, etc..
https://www.ntt.com/en/services/data-center/nexcenter/us.html