A Drop-style hosting feature pulled in 37.1M requests in a day, then got cut off
BugSmash's one-click Drop hosting rode the instant-link wave Cloudflare and Netlify made mainstream, then paid the price: 37.1M requests in 24 hours before the host pulled the plug. It's a blunt reminder that anonymous, build-free hosting attracts abuse as fast as it attracts users, and virality and abuse often arrive together.