SimpleCDN has been effectively kicked off the Internet by its ISPs w/o warning

Post by cmelbye » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 5:36 PM UTC

andfarm wrote: post #37

bmelton wrote: post #3

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I hope that's the case, honestly, and I hope that it does go to court. I'm frankly sick and tired of the 'unlimited' advertising model, wherein unlimited really means limited to some arbitrary amount that is not disclosed. As a customer who has been kicked off of a number of unlimited hosting services for a site that only does ~30Gb or so in traffic in a month, I'd love to see hard limits advertised rather than 'unli…

We (at DreamHost) don't state any explicit limits as they're pretty fluid in practice. The effective limits are basically: * Don't use enough resources that you make it hard for us to provide good service to other customers. (Saturating the network / filling the filesystem = bad.) * If you're legitimately using lots of resources, we'll move you around if you start getting near the limits on the hardware you're on, bu…

Post by xd » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 5:53 PM UTC

andfarm wrote: post #37

bmelton wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope that's the case, honestly, and I hope that it does go to court. I'm frankly sick and tired of the 'unlimited' advertising model, wherein unlimited really means limited to some arbitrary amount that is not disclosed. As a customer who has been kicked off of a number of unlimited hosting services for a site that only does ~30Gb or so in traffic in a month, I'd love to see hard limits advertised rather than 'unli…

We (at DreamHost) don't state any explicit limits as they're pretty fluid in practice. The effective limits are basically: * Don't use enough resources that you make it hard for us to provide good service to other customers. (Saturating the network / filling the filesystem = bad.) * If you're legitimately using lots of resources, we'll move you around if you start getting near the limits on the hardware you're on, bu…

Post by citricsquid » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 6:36 PM UTC

jonknee wrote: post #42

tybris wrote: post #22

Could this month get any better for Amazon? -It's December -Mastercard.com and Paypal.com went down making Amazon one of the few on-line shops that could still process payments -Since no Amazon service went down under DDoS, big companies will come crawling to them to use AWS -SimpleCDN goes down, no doubt driving lots of customers to bigger parties like AWS -They are making boat loads of money http://www.wolframalpha…

"... making Amazon one of the few on-line shops that could still process payments" is a huge overstatement. Mastercard.com and Visa.com being down has no material effect on almost all eCommerce (I don't remember the last time I had visited either). PayPal does, but that affects Amazon as well since they accept PayPal at places like Zappos and Diapers.com.

Post by dannyb » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 6:56 PM UTC

tybris wrote: post #44

mdaniel wrote: post #40

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Does mastercard.com process payments? I got the impression that it was just the marketing/corporate presence that was affected.

Securecode was affected as well, which is the payment portal you need to go through for many on-line shops.

Post by citricsquid » Sun, Dec 12, 2010, 7:06 PM UTC

jonknee wrote: post #48

citricsquid wrote: post #45

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both visa and mastercard had their payment processing servers down along with their websites.

Well I was able to process payments just fine for both during the DDOS...