Archive for the ‘DNS’ Category
DDoS Facts and Recommendations According to Forrester
In our webcast with Forrester yesterday, analyst Andras Cser outlined some facts and good advice when it comes to DDoS attacks. Forrester DDoS Facts: eCommerce vendors loose between $200k-$500k/downtime hour Typical length of a DDoS attack is 2-6 hours Bandwidth overprovisioning is not the answer (costs too high) Total DDoS mitigation cost = firewall/IDS operational [...]
Jeff KimChief Operating Officer, CDNetworks Americas & EMEA
DNS is Critical for Any Organization
Did your Web site go down last week? The DNS outage at GoDaddy made not just the technical news, but the nightly news. CNN, Fox News, ABC, CBS and others covered the approximately 6 hour outage where several million Web sites were unavailable. An InformationWeek article(1) notes that one GoDaddy customer, RunningsShoes.com lost $50,000 in [...]
John McIlwainDirector, Product Management
TO BUILD OR NOT TO BUILD, THAT IS THE QUESTION
TO BUILD OR NOT TO BUILD, THAT IS THE QUESTION Fortune 500 companies, whether they are manufacturers, software-as-a-service providers, or retailers, can’t afford to ignore the opportunities for revenue generation and process efficiency presented by today’s global Internet economy. As a result, many have established an extended enterprise of customers, employees, and partners with end [...]
John McIlwainDirector, Product Management
Understanding Web Performance Test Results Part 3
Guest Blogger: Arthur Zey Last time, I wrote about two of the major decisions you will confront in crafting a testing strategy: testing cacheable versus non-cacheable content and using backbone or last mile testing. In this installment, I cover a few miscellaneous “gotcha”s to be aware of, both before and after running your tests: the [...]
Sharon BellCDNetworks, Director of Marketing, Americas & EMEA
Global Internet Speedup Initiative: A Look Under the Hood
You have probably heard about it – the Global Internet Speedup Initiative. If you are already using a CDN provider, you are probably wondering if and how this can have any impact on your website speed and application performance. And what has DNS got to do with all of this anyway? In order to understand [...]
John McIlwainDirector, Product Management
