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.

  • SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    OP, you’re looking for something called “Bot as a Service”. There are more and more companies that cater to those needing a bot infrastructure. Bright data, ScrapingBee, ZenRows, and Apify are some of the more common services I typically work against that offer what you’re looking for.

    *Edit: If you’re just looking for performance testing, you can use services like Loadster.