The Problem
Malicious traffic exhausted hosting resources
The site was not failing because of normal traffic growth. Repeated abusive requests were bypassing basic caching and hitting expensive endpoints until the hosting environment became unstable.
The immediate priority was to restore availability without blocking legitimate customers.
Resource exhaustion
Aggressive repeated requests consumed CPU and memory until the site stopped responding.
Cache bypassing
Attack traffic targeted routes that avoided the normal caching layer.
Legitimate users affected
Real visitors experienced timeouts and failed page loads during repeated hosting collapses.