benjojo (nprofile…htaz) that's also my experience. when a go service i ran on a $5 droplet with no caching infrastructure whatsoever was the top link, i had a mild panic. but nothing happened.
it was not quite 1.5 rps - at peak it was double-digit rps, but still something even a raspberry pi can handle.
and while weird jank causing websites to fall over is probably a thing, i suspect quotas are the culprit more often than not.