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by InformalRelief 4833 days ago
Can somebody here ballpark how much this would cost if you rented servers instead of using a botnet?
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mike_esspe 4833 days ago
The 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.
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GFischer 4832 days ago
Funnily, 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

and another study was done using EC2 instances:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5405483

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