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Report: Availability of Top U.S. Websites Improves in Q1 2017

Forty-four percent of the top 100,000 websites in the U.S. by site visits reached or exceeded “four nines” availability in Q1 2017. Continue reading

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FCC Claims DDoS Attack Crashed Net Neutrality Comment System

A DDoS attack, and not John Oliver, caused the Federal Communication Commission’s Electronic Comment Filing System (ECFS) to crash, according to a Monday statement. Continue reading

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City of Oakland Website Goes Down as Domain Name Expires

As a domain registrar and web hosting provider you can send reminders to customers who need to renew their domain name, but you can’t force them to renew their domains. Continue reading

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How The New York Times Handled Unprecedented Election-Night Traffic Spike

Election of 2012 brought the site to its knees; its current CTO wasn’t going to let it happen again last November. Continue reading

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Melbourne IT Recovers from DDoS Attack

Melbourne IT has confirmed that an hour and a half-long service disruption suffered by its customers and its subsidiaries Netregistry and TPP Wholesale on Thursday was the result of a DDoS attack. Continue reading

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