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How to Crash a Server

 Today we are gonna concentrate on how to crash a server. usually when you give too many request to a server or a site it tends to crash.

 
Requirements : any Ubuntu based Linux (ex. Linux mint, Ubuntu, etc etc.)

the first step is to install a program called "siege" this is a command line program. this hack is a pretty small one.
This program is actually used by administrator  to check the strength of their website
which essentially means we can also use it to overload the site and crash it.

The simple steps for installation are
  1. go to your terminal
  2. type in sudo apt-get install siege
  3. type your admin password
  4. it will install
NOW TO ACTUALLY PERFORM THE CRASH..

  • go to your terminal 
  • type siege -c20 <<website name>>  (example:  siege -c20 www.example.com)
  • press enter
  • it will start the "battle"
  • to stop the attack close the terminal ot press "ctrl+z"
here  "-c" indicates how many concurrent users.. meaning how strong the attack should be.! (this depends on your computers processor (if you have single core then 200 is max, if you have a more powerful comp, then 5000,10000 etc etc)



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