If a thread on PF got as many links to it as that one, the server would be on its knees too.

Only X amount of traffic can be handled by any given website configuration.

I am involved with development for the www.toyota.co.uk site, we have a massive infrastructure as you would expect of a large commercial website and yet even still we have struggled on occasion with traffic when we have had popular above the line advertising campaigns and web adverts at the same time.