June 2015

06/30/2015

Some Still Aren’t Protected from DDoS Attacks: Downtime Inevitable

Here at Alertra we often discuss the importance of protecting your website against DDoS attacks – the type of attacks that flood your site with traffic to the point the servers go down for the count. Website monitoring service is a very important tool in your arsenal to fight website downtime caused by DDoS antics. Unfortunately, many websites are still unprotected against DDoS attacks, foregoing website monitoring service, as is evidenced by the recent outages experienced by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).

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06/16/2015

The Dreams Bed Store Case Study: Proof that Even Brick and Mortar Stores Need To Take Website Uptime Seriously

When it comes to website downtime, it seems that businesses that operate primarily online are the ones who put the most effort into minimizing website downtime. Brick and mortar retailers don’t always take website downtime as seriously as the online stores do. The Dreams bed and mattress store, however, is a perfect example of how website downtime can be just as detrimental to a brick and mortar store as it is to ecommerce retailers.

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06/08/2015

Southwest Airlines’ Website Downtime: What They Did Wrong and What They Did Right

Oftentimes a sale can bring a website crashing down, especially if the deals being offered are as tempting as the $49 airfare sale that was being offered by Southwest Airlines over the past few days. As Southwest Airlines found out, a huge surge in traffic during such a sale can bring a website crashing down. Not only does this type of website downtime mean lost profits, it means frustrated customers who aren’t able to get in on the deal while it is being offered. In looking at this particular instance of website downtime, there are two things we must ask. What did Southwest do wrong?

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