I am surprised that you claim to have this affiliation but have not once mentioned anything about "verifying the signature of the downloaded files" which is the most important part, even more important than downloading from the official website (electrum.org). in fact it doesn't matter where you download them from as long as you verify them with the real PGP public key of the real developer.

as for the server, i think it is a bad move specially since there is no guarantee people are connecting to that server anyways since there are quite a lot of them available.