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.
I’d hire a cyber security firm. Most firms can test how your website handles under specific kinds of stress like ddos or malicious webscrapers. They can also advice you on the axtuak risks and how to mitigate them.
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.
If you ask this kind of questions I recommend you to look up github and launch any ddos software you find there, if you host it at home your home router will 99% shut down if you don’t have rack router with ddos protection. If you shut down remote server router because you host in shitty provider that’s illegal. Anyways it’s stupid.
if you have the skill set to run the tools you’ll need to run in order to perform this type of test I would advise just renting a bunch of low-cost VPS systems and configuring them as needed. You can rent computers monthly for just a couple of dollars on things like digitalocean or ovh or something like that and as long as you’re targeting your own stuff I mean you’re not going to call the cops on yourself so nothing to worry about. you can probably even just do it with something like AWS and you know just scale up and down as needed and it’ll be a lot more cost effective that way too.
I’d double check that it’s legal.
Also you’re giving money to people who usually does not do legal things.
