While 7700 per hour sounds big, pretty much any dinky server can handle it. So I don't think it's a matter of DDoS. At this point it's just... odd behaviour.
especially for a txt file. I don't know anything really about webdev but I'm pretty sure serving up 7700 plaintext files with roughly 10 lines each an hour isn't that demanding
especially for a txt file. I don't know anything really about webdev but I'm pretty sure serving up 7700 plaintext files with roughly 10 lines each an hour isn't that demanding