“In the last 5 days alone, they tried to download it more than 800K times - our setup file is approximately 200MB per download.”
Someone requested TablePlus’s 200MB installer about 6 million times in 30 days. The servers sat at 0-1% CPU. The stack is one compiled binary per app on a VPS, behind Cloudflare, with no Vercel or Netlify to send a surprise bill. The same flood on a serverless platform arrives as an invoice. Boring infrastructure turned out to be the DDoS protection.