This is the same state that spend $60M-ish to revamp their entire unemployment system 6 years ago, only to have it completely collapse this year when 'rona landed.
On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 4:19 PM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > I understand that there is underlying work that can't be sourced somewhere > else, at least not trivially. > > How many of these overloaded web sites that we hear about (voter > registration, unemployment registration, web sites announced in a big way, > causing surges in traffic, etc.) have a CDN offloading the low-hanging > fruit? > > I know that processing a voter registration is far more intensive than > serving up static images, but surely a CDN taking the low hanging fruit > would help to some degree. I'm assuming most of the people running these > sites are clueless and haven't looked at this, but maybe they have. > > > > ----- > Mike Hammett > Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Sean Donelan" <s...@donelan.com> > *To: *nanog@nanog.org > *Sent: *Tuesday, October 6, 2020 11:51:39 AM > *Subject: *Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline > > > Every election has problems. Most of the time, those problems aren't > noticed. Elections rely on a lot of back-end infrastructure, besides the > actual voting itself. > > It could be a DDOS attack, or simply duct-taped systems having trouble > with the load. > > Voting early (mail, drop-off, in-person) means more time to fix glitches. > > > > > https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-election-2020-florida-elections-ron-desantis-dc8aaf2213b6c50451019a7c0c07c3f7 > > The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned > elections officials nationwide last week that cyberattacks could disrupt > their systems during the run-up to the election. They particularly noted > “distributed denial-of-service” attacks, which inundate a computer system > with requests, potentially clogging up servers until the system becomes > inaccessible to legitimate users. > >
