I don't get it. He has a 500 gigabyte monthly quota, and the single page linked here is 270 megabytes (!) according to another comment (I didn't check but it's full of unnecessarily hi-res movies in .gif format). Why does he assume that 2000 hits of a page in 6 hours is so implausible that it must be "a weird malicious bot attack, or some kind of web crawler stuck in a loop"? That's only 5 hits a minute! Hasn't he heard of "going viral"?

I wonder why something like that can still happen in 2023. Shouldn't web traffic be orders of magnitude cheaper now than twenty years ago?

Lol. HN, on sunday morning, just ddosed a website of mostly text and a few static images.