According to an interview with France Télécom’s CEO in the Wall Street Journal today, mobile data traffic use in Paris is growing at a staggering 5% per week. That means it doubles every 15 weeks, and increases 12 fold in a year. Sounds like a challenge to FT’s infrastructure, as well as to your smartphone’s […]
Here is a story from somebody whose Google account got hacked. Very interesting to see what you need to do to get it back. It also makes a great checklist to prepare yourself for all kinds of disaster. This is what I call digital asset protection.Quote: I learned a couple awesome things about recovering a […]
For more info look at http://isoc.org/wp/worldipv6day/ On 8 June, 2011, Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight Networks will be amongst some of the major organisations that will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour “test drive”. The goal of the Test Drive Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies – to […]
WikiLeaks moves around the cloud a bit, as a Netcraft analysis documents. See full article here. This is an interesting case study. It shows how WikiLeaks moves its servers around from one Amazon EC2 location to another, while simultaneously finding yet other providers for managing its DNS. Particularly interesting are the attempts to reduce the WikiLeaks […]
Google just published its Q3 financial results. You can read it yourself at http://investor.google.com/earnings/2010/Q3_google_earnings.html So, what is Google spending on IT, and how much servers would that buy? This is one of their best kept secrets. I looked at that earlier. Let’s have a new look. Some quotes: Other cost of revenues, which is comprised primarily […]
As a followup to my earlier post, here are some more details on the denial of service attack on DNS Made Easy, Aug 7th 2010. The first graph represents the time it took to resolve a domainname to an IP address, averaged by the hour. The domains all have their records served by DNS Made […]
On Saturday Aug 7th , 2010, DNS provider DNS Made Easy was the target of a very large denial of service attack. As far as can be determined the total traffic volume exceeded 40 Gigabit/second, enough to saturate 1 million dialup Internet lines. Several of DNS Made Easy’s upstream providers had saturated backbone links themselves. […]
For my dutch readers: the dutch chapter of the Computer Measurement Group starts formally with a meeting on August 26, 2010. The meeting location will be central in the Netherlands, but still has to be decided. The meeting will run from 16:00 until 19:00, with a number of short presentations and a brief business meeting. […]
This article, a follow up on an earlier blogpost, gives a more detailed look at the location of the Amazon CloudFront service. This location is derived from the time it takes to connect to it from a number of locations. The summary is that CloudFront is on the average about 40-50 milliseconds away from a random […]