by Ravni » Wed Mar 30, 2016 12:17 pm
It's a free site run & hosted out of pocket by a single dude in his spare time with no financial interest or support, not even advertising (minus the ~$50/month in donations to help a bit with hosting I guess). The creator never anticipated it would become this popular or have to host the enormous amounts of data being constantly uploaded to it at all hours of the day & night.
I know all of that applies to Nostalrius itself too, and people don't like the whole "it's free and there's nothing better, so deal with it or make a better version yourself" argument, but it's free and there's nothing better, so deal with it or make a better version yourself.