I am more talking about certain servers being blocked due to political reasons. In our very first year, we had two download buttons, GitHub and SourceForge. (Simply because we didn’t have any mirror servers)
We received a lot of complaints the ISO wasn’t available for a lot of people, due to political or local infrastructural reasons.
When Alpix and the other mirrors came in the mix, the complaints remained when I very briefly had Alpix under our main download button. This is why I eventually went the Arch-way of having local mirror links on the website.