DoS is often misunderstood. It's perfectly normal for legitimate traffic to accidently DDoS you if you have low specs (or a huge unwieldy site) and get a link

DoS is often misunderstood. It's perfectly normal for legitimate traffic to accidently DDoS you if you have low specs (or a huge unwieldy site) and get a link somewhere popular like HN. I run a blog on a small cloud VM. If it made front page of HN all those visitors would DDoS my site "by accident" in no time. Don't forget, accessing a website the normal way is outbound bandwidth. Incidentally, I like to use my blog to explain topics that aren't widely understood outside of tech people or domain specific experience. Maybe I should be a bit more active and explain things like this?