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(2) Hmmm..well Google Calendar just had an outage. I'll stick with Fastmail is very reliable and independent. They can't really be blamed for a DOS attack.

• delroth 10y ago
  > They can't really be blamed for a DOS attack. That doesn't really hold when their competitors have teams of engineers working on DDoS mitigations and successfully handle most of these attacks. Falling to a DoS is a technical failure just like other causes of outages.
  • corford 10y ago
    A ~1 hour response time from identifying to mitigating the DDoS isn't exactly bad. I'd say their engineers did a pretty good job.
    • leblancfg 10y ago
      Security really isn't my strong suit, but isn't it standard practice to automate DDoS mitigation strategies?
      • corford 10y ago
        Depends on the type and size of the DDoS and where on the network path it's hitting.
      • abpavel 10y ago
        DoS is a threat from identifiable source, like Russia. DDoS looks just like normal users, like terrorist sleeping cells.