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sir, I'm the former staff member of the infamous webstresser.org, I think I should know what we received millions of dollars for,

I understand that you never received attacks of such 'large' scale but it takes $5 to take a hetzner server down (assuming you don't know how to do it yourself)

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Details would be enlightening : ) Was it the servers or the applications running on the servers that were taken down? Running bare metal servers exposed to the public is a fairly obvious footgun, there should be at least one layer of load balancing in front in addition to the provider’s firewalls. I’d argue MOST publicly exposed servers run by amateurs can be taken down for less than $5. Regardless of them being bare metal at Hetzner or some EC2 instance.

If you don't mind answering, what was the nature of your attacks? Was it bandwidth exhaustion or layer-7 CPU exhaustion?

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