Sam's possibly impossible way of reducing the number of slowdowns on VGC.

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Although I am not going to go into it now, it is incredibly unlikely that that would work. Check out FreeNet if you would like to learn more about why I say that; it is just all too likely that the overhead involved in setting that system up and distributing the tasks would far outweigh any benefits.

Without even getting into the 'trust' issues involved in allowing 3rd parties to host things (Say, there is an IE exploit and someone in the herd decides to infect all VGC users that get the site from them...), here is some reasoning it will not actually help matters at all.

In this analysis, I will use the following terms for simplicity.
Alice = Person wanting to view VGC.
Bob = one part of this distributed hosting system.

1) Alice goes to VGC.com
2) Alice does the normal DNS lookup, and gets the address of VGC's load-balancing server. This takes the same amount of time as it does now.
3) VGC's load-balancing server sends the request off to Bob.
4) Now, Alice's request has to travel through the internet to Bob's computer. This will take 50+milliseconds depending on various factors (almost certainly more). Compare this to the