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Can somebody here ballpark how much this would cost if you rented servers instead of using a botnet?
by InformalRelief 14y ago
Can somebody here ballpark how much this would cost if you rented servers instead of using a botnet?
- mike_esspe 14y agoThe problem with renting is that your provider will probably shutdown you, if your scan rate is high. At least that is the problem with large dedicated server hosters.
- GFischer 14y agoFunnily, the post inmediately above you (posted a bit later) mentions: "I had to spend USD15 to run 8 medium EC2 instances for 16 hours to only find 200++ million hosts" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5406233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5406233 and another study was done using EC2 instances: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5405483 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5405483