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is something like this advisable to do to your own site to test or will cloud providers get angry? is it legal to do in general?

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i don't see why would it be illegal to do this to your own site. and i don't see why cloud providers would get angry -- you're just giving them money for the bandwidth you use on your account.

when i built out the wordpress aws site i mentioned here i used a locust cluster to simulate high traffic loads in order to test the load balancer in elastic beanstalk... amazon even has a guide on how to set it up.

This will hammer your CPU to the wall too. If it's a cheap cloud provider that is charging you based on the assumption that you're not actually going to use very much CPU and the server you're running on is overprovisioned, they'll get angry. If you're paying for 100% of the specs you're getting, it won't bother them (i.e., AWS, where even the 'overprivisioned' tiny VMs are overprovisioned with specific SLAs for what that means, and you're still welcome to use 100% of that promise).

> i.e., AWS

good points, this is what i was referring to - aws doesn't care.

You might use up your traffic allocation and your provider might shut the server down if it disturbs other tenants.

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