Last month we discussed how Amazon.com’s website went down due to a self-inflicted DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack that occurred when Amazon’s servers just couldn’t keep up with the annual Prime Day traffic – something we said might occur if Amazon did not properly ready itself for Prime Day the month before the previous blog post. Amazon, however, is not the only company that has ever suffered from a self-inflicted DDoS attack. In fact, chances of your website going down due to a self-inflicted DDoS attack are actually greater than suffering such an attack due to hackers.
Read more →Web hosting in the past involved firstly choosing between windows or Unix hosting service. Once the operating system based choice was made, then there were options based on the volume of traffic expected or budget. Obviously, larger traffic supporting hosting was at a higher fee. The types of plans typically available were amateur plans, small business plans and corporate plans. All these plans are shared hosting plans where one web server is shared with multiple websites. This works for most sites and will fit in well with most SMBs.
Read more →What is your most important digital asset? Yes, you have guessed it right. It is nothing other than your website. This is sometimes forgotten. As new digital assets have grown, companies have created their social media profiles on the various providers.
Read more →Today, no matter what type of business you are doing, the website is crucial for success. In the dynamic and competitive business environment, you have to make sure that your desktop and mobile version of your site is continuously available, working correctly and responding quickly.
Read more →Are the visitors to your website not being able to access your website’s functionality? There are 2 possible types of situations when this happens. One is when you do it deliberately i.e. when the website is down for maintenance. Around mid-night especially during weekends many financial sites are regularly down for maintenance. Another situation is when the website is down when it was supposed to be working fine. This later situation is not a good one and should be avoided or at least minimized.
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