Idea for a "slow burn" ddos. Would it work?

So let's say I have a small botnet and I just get them all to make just a few requests as a background process. Nothing to max out the machine. Just enough to put some strain on the server.

Next, I do that some more. And I keep doing that, slowing raising the requests and letting them up the server costs at infinitum until they give up and ultimately have a big ol botnet of server requests happening and stuff. Worth?

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