I want to rent a botnet and point it at my own website + service stack so that I can better understand how they work and protect myself against it.

I’m looking for things like automated web scraping, targeted ddos, llm generated fake comments and stuff like that. Basically, I want to test my services against my stuff before I launch.

I don’t believe this is illegal as I’m targeting myself for education.

  • lol@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 days ago

    Couldn’t you simply rent a single server with like twice the bandwidth of your existing server? Unless you want to test automatic banning of IP addresses or something, having it spam your website with requests should have the exact same effect as using a botnet.

    I don’t think you can rent botnets with some ready to use software to simulate web scraping or generate fake comments. You’d probably have to write that yourself anyway.

    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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      4 days ago

      I don’t think you can rent botnets with some ready to use software to simulate web scraping or generate fake comments

      Just look how half of the “reviews” on Amazon are fake already.

      Oh yes, someone has paid for them, and there’s a well established industry at work.