The day-to-day existence of the Internet faces a new kind of threat. Anyone attempting to use popular services like Twitter, Reddit, Amazon, AirBnB, Github, or Spotify on October 21st has now heard the term “DDoS attack”. A massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack (NYT story) from an unknown source targeted just one major DNS provider. However, it took… Continue reading Why Massive DDoS Attacks Show Independent Hosting Wins