I was 'in the room' when this happened. From the people monitoring the site and getting it back online there was no suspicion that the amount of traffic was hig

I was 'in the room' when this happened. From the people monitoring the site and getting it back online there was no suspicion that the amount of traffic was high enough to be considered a DDOS, it was just a small, low-traffic service that got unexpectedly crushed a là many that get suffocated by HN. I suspect other reasons for bringing this up now.