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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_bomb

Fork Bombs are easier to pull off from the command line. Not so much with DOS. I would say that loading a large webserver for each request would use up more resources than a tiny C program. Thats the whole point of the post.



You're right about the webserver being overload. Threads would be less expensive than processes.

I would use Go for this service myself. Defending against abuse is hard whichever way one goes.




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