Given that the vast majority of the web are Wordpress sites (or Drupal if you're a larger Org) that are on $5-20 per month multi-tenant hosts, have not installed caches, and speak directly to the database... the vast majority of sites on the internet can be knocked offline by merely doing 4 requests per second.
That sounds crazy, right? But yet that's where we are.
Context: I used to manage the DDoS protection at Cloudflare, and also the WAF, Firewall and some customer facing security projects, and we frequently either saw that web scraping took customers offline, or trivial and very low volume HTTP request rates took customers offline. In the early days we considered anything to be a DoS when it threatened our infra, but the threshold for customers is barely higher than a few concurrent and active users.
The big numbers always make headlines, but it's the small numbers which most people feel.
That sounds crazy, right? But yet that's where we are.
Context: I used to manage the DDoS protection at Cloudflare, and also the WAF, Firewall and some customer facing security projects, and we frequently either saw that web scraping took customers offline, or trivial and very low volume HTTP request rates took customers offline. In the early days we considered anything to be a DoS when it threatened our infra, but the threshold for customers is barely higher than a few concurrent and active users.
The big numbers always make headlines, but it's the small numbers which most people feel.