Those projects are always given to the lowest bidder, not the best
(see ACA).
( Or the "friendliest" depending if the requirements are spelling
out the name of the highest donator of which ever party is in power =D )
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On 2020-10-06 16:17, Mike Hammett 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.
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*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.
