[marginalia_nu]

Would it though? Most of these operations seem to use botnets. So it's enterprise routers and smart fridges and juiceros doing the heavy lifting.

[anshumankmr]

I have a very rudimentary understanding of a botnet, but I am sure it's not going to be super expensive if you are trying to DDos a site like this. It would be prohibitively expensive if you are trying to do this to something like AWS.

However, the monetary gain from doing this is gonna be zero dollars. The entertainment factor isn't gonna be likely either.