The issue isn't from user-initiated requests. It's from the hundreds of automatic refreshes that the proxy then performs over the course of the day and beyond.

The issue isn't from user-initiated requests. It's from the hundreds of automatic refreshes that the proxy then performs over the course of the day and beyond. One person who was running a git server that hosts a Go repo only they use was hit with 4gb of traffic over the course of a few hours. Thats a DDoS.