Black Friday is pretty much a tat sale now.
If an organised and sustained effort to browse heavily some website took place, would it be enough to cause increased website costs for the company?
The big sites planning their year on selling masses of junk on one weekend no doubt expect their systems to scale up accordingly, and they plan for that cost.
How much browsing, by how many more people browsing and not buying, would be needed to cause them significant costs?
Possible?
So many companies don’t value their customers, their data or value.
It is time to change that, but how?
You’re suggesting the “reddit hug of death” as a weapon. It would have to be something much smaller. Certainly not Amazon, who runs their own web services.
Netflix had an issue with Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson at around 100 million viewers. Caused some streaming issues for many people. Those are the sorts of numbers you’d need to make those bigger websites even flinch a little. And that was people streaming video, not simply visiting the website. Also it was one of Netflix’s very first live events, so the technical issues probably hadn’t been worked out yet.
If a bunch of people went to Walmart.com or something, and all started streaming video. There’s definitely a level where it would crash the site. Probably in the hundreds of millions. However you’d have to coordinate this ahead of time, and in recruiting 300 million people for your plan they’d hear about it and be prepared for it, so I can’t imagine this actually working.