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User got a $104K bill from hosting provider(Netlify): “I thought it was a joke” (cybernews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Fair point. DOS is perhaps the wrong word for it. But from that quote, it sounds like it's a similar behaviour to DOS tactics which involve finding ways to transform a relatively simple request into a large amount of work (or in this case, network traffic) for the server.