On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 05:11:34PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: > > Given the scale of these attacks, whether having two providers does any > good may be a crap shoot. > > That is, what if the target happens to share the same providers you do? > Given the whole asymmetry of resources that make this a problem in the > first place, the attackers probably have the resources to take out multiple > providers. > > Having multiple providers may reduce your chance of being collateral damage > (and I'd also still worry more about the more mundane risks of a single > provider, maintenance or upgrade gone bad, business risks, etc., than these > sensational ones), but multiple providers likely won't save you if you are > the actual target of the attack.
Good, perfect, enemy, etc. How many sites were down today? How many were the intended target? -- Brett