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What's worse for a website hosting company: getting taken down by hackers, or failing to properly configure your network, sparking downtime and lost revenue for customers? . The CEO of website hosting service Go Daddy has said that the company's six-hour outage Monday had nothing to do with a hacktivist, despite a hacker having claimed credit for launching a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS) that scuttled the Go Daddy network. The link for this article located at Information Week is no longer available. . Investigating GoDaddy's service interruption: Misfortune or DDoS strike? Examination of the extended outage and effects on users.. GoDaddy Outage, DDoS, Network Configuration, Cyber Incident. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
Another Amazon cloud-services outage occurred on Sunday, August 7th in a Dublin, Ireland data center. This one occurred due to a lightning strike that hit a transformer near the Dublin data center. It led to an explosion and fire that knocked out all utility services thereby leading to a total data center outage. Amazon had its only European data center located there.. My initial thoughts are related to disaster recovery and Amazon services. In their last significant outage in April, they had a network configuration change that led to an outage of services in the eastern United States. This outage begs other questions. Why isn't Amazon deploying a redundant power source, like a diesel powered backup? Maybe they did, but the fire blew out a portion of that utility service. So a more serious disaster emerged from an initial transformer explosion. The link for this article located at Computer World is no longer available. . Observations on Google's July disruption reveal weaknesses in backup systems and network resilience within data centers.. Disaster Recovery Strategies, Cloud Outage Analysis, Redundant Power Solutions. . Alex
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