You can also kill my server with a single client. Nobody has for the ~15 years that I've hosted on old laptops now. I've run game servers, a wiki mirror, file upload sites, a Tor exit node, torrent seeding, recently a VM image for a malware analysis course, all sorts of random tools and scripts, you name it; various different audiences but most with some technical know-how, yet nobody has felt the need.

People have messed with things and found bugs (so far always reported more-or-less ethically), and lots of scanners go across the Internet daily, but I've never seen a deliberate take-down effort. (Kind of wondering whether I'm calling that upon myself now, but so be it. Let's see what happens.)

This fear of having to react to a DoS attack by knocking on big brother's door and thus preemptively knocking, it's so anti self hosting mentality, but is also pervasive throughout the self hosting community, I really don't understand it.