@lingling/anyone else interested
what you actually described is a DDOS attack or Distributed Denial Of Service attack. A DOS attack is the same, but only 1 computer is doing the attack. They don't really even have to request the website, as you can request other things too (like ping replies), but requesting certain parts of this website would cause the greatest load on the server.
DOS attacks used to work until the developers smartened up and refuse connections from the same IP/mac address that come to quickly. To get around that problem, you make thousands of different computers attack the same source at the same time, thus causing the server to try and handle all the requests. Since the IP addresses are different, the server doesn't know which IPs to ignore and which are legitimate users.
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