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Rackspace Makes DDoS Attack Recovery

After several hours of disruption, public cloud hosting provider Rackspace recovered from a Distributed Denial of Service attack which began flooding its DNS servers early this week at its Northern Virginia, Chicago, and London data centers. Continue reading

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Germany-Based Web Host 1&1 Suffers Outage With Second DDoS Attack in Two Months

On Tuesday afternoon at 4 pm ET sites hosted at Germany-based 1&1 went offline as the company suffered a DDoS attack on its DNS infrastructure. After 14 hours of downtime, its Twitter support feed began to report service gradually being restored. The company suffered a large attack on the same… Continue reading

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Germany Web Host 1&1 Suffers Outage With Second DDoS Attack in 2 months

Tuesday afternoon at 4pm sites hosted at Germany-based 1&1 went offline as the company suffered a DDoS attack on it’s DNS infrastructure. Sites began to come back online about 19 hours later. The company suffered a large attack on the same days of the month in October earlier this year.… Continue reading

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Amazon CloudFront DNS Service Suffers Pre-Thanksgiving Outage

Amazon’s CloudFront DNS service is back to normal on Friday after an outage earlier this week caused major loading issues for companies using the service to speed up web pages and delivery. Continue reading

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Not Your Mother’s DNS: Unique NSONE Algorithms Give Users Way More Traffic Control

NSONE, a startup based in New York City, is the newest entrant to the DNS market. NSONE was founded by former Voxel employees who transitioned to Internap after it acquired the hosting company in 2012. Kris Beevers, Alex Vayl and Jonathan Sullivan talked about creating a new managed DNS company for two years before it became a reality in 2013. Continue reading

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