Re: 143.228.0.0/16 and house.gov

["Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith () gmail com>]

On 10/2/08, Jean-François Mezei <jfmezei () vaxination ca> wrote:
> <snip>

Question:
> Is it possible to setup an akamai feed in hours once you know your
> website is to be swamped ?
>
> Obviously, the system managers there might not have been warned in
> advance that the politicians would place a huge load on their servers.
> But once they realised it, is it conceivable that they quickly setup an
> akamai feed ?  Or is that something which takes weeks to setup ?
I'm not sure about Akamai, but I believe Amazon is about to roll out CDN
services as well (and I would assume they're as flexible as their other
"cloud" offerings). As always, hindsight is 20/20.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/html-forms-controller/aws-content-delivery-service

-brandon