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Originally Posted by Michael the German
I did some data mining once, getting the addresses of companies that attended that convention out from the homepage, by using one of those tools that scan the page for you, look for keywords, save content to your harddrive so you can further filter it later etc.
Being new (back then) to this matter it seems I had the software running on pretty server-unfriendly settings - opening too many threads at once, things like that. Which after a while sent the server down - it didn't block my IP, it was gone for several hours (until, I assume, someone noticed and reset it).
Now - before I try achieving something similar on gerdab.ir: I suspect that doing that would be similar to attempting a DDos attack - I mean possibly blocking the Iranian backbone for our friends as well?
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What you did is not technically a DDoS attack. You just overstressed a weak server. For a
DDoS attack more than one computers should attack a server (usually controlled from a central station manually or automatically).
However, in that sense, Nedasites is also an independent server stress program. It's not controlled centrally either (though we have a suggestion list and in the next version the list will be fixed).
But generally speaking, you can use your program to achieve the same (or even better) results as Nedasites. You just need to overstress the server...
