Surprisingly, the server response time is very long even though all it sends back is a mostly empty static index.html. Is it the absence of caching that's responsible for this?
apologies for that, I'm rather new to the language I'm using for this site still, and I put it together rather fast, so there were loads of issues with it crashing, all fixed now I'm pretty sure
(tldr it was accidentally doing millions of requests a second, maxing out the server cpu and ram. even other services were crashing on it lol)