Would hammering websites on black Friday actually cost companies money?

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Pzulu@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

Black Friday is pretty much a tat sale now.

If an organised and sustained effort to browse heavily some website took place, would it be enough to cause increased website costs for the company?

The big sites planning their year on selling masses of junk on one weekend no doubt expect their systems to scale up accordingly, and they plan for that cost.

How much browsing, by how many more people browsing and not buying, would be needed to cause them significant costs?

Possible?

So many companies don’t value their customers, their data or value.

It is time to change that, but how?

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bekopharm@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨48⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

by how many more people

Sysadmin here. Forget about it. People are a drop in the ocean on website requests nowadays. Anything is getting hammered all day long already by legions of bots. Mostly scrapers and many more bad actors. The numbers are staggering - one could simply not compete by hammering F5 for refresh any more.

People? Hah. We’ll all have agents for that soon whether we like it or not.

I hate this timeline. So much.

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unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
This is called a Distributed Denial of Service attack, it won’t work, or you need more resources and criminality.

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one_old_coder@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
You would need a lot of people, and they have CDNs to fight this. I doubt it’s useful or possible.

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Pennywise@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
How much backbone do you have available?

You’d have to either saturate their network or their compute.

Most websites offload a ton of the processing to the client. So you’d likely have to beat cloudflare at their business model.

It’ll be mitigated within the duration of a fart. -toot-

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RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
You’re suggesting the “reddit hug of death” as a weapon. It would have to be something much smaller. Certainly not Amazon, who runs their own web services.

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Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
No. All bigger websites already have DDOS protection.

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