Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

On Wed, 07 Oct 2020 22:10:07 -0700, "Constantine A. Murenin" said: > People act like 1.1 million requests per hour is a huge number. > > That's only 305 requests per second! > > Cheapest NVMe SSDs are capable of 160k+ IOPS. > > You can literally serve the whole thing from a single server on a > 10

Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

This is a great F’in email, Sean! Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 7, 2020, at 10:10 PM, Constantine A. Murenin > wrote: > > On 06/10/2020, Sean Donelan wrote: >> >> Florida has had notoriously unreliable state I.T. infrastructure for >> years. Florida's unemployment websites were broken for

Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

On 06/10/2020, Sean Donelan wrote: > > Florida has had notoriously unreliable state I.T. infrastructure for > years. Florida's unemployment websites were broken for months during the > Spring 2020 COVID unemployment demand surge. So its very likely crappy > state I.T. infrastructure problems bein

Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

This is not the first, and won't be the last, problem that happens during this election season. Unless there is substantial and credible evidence otherwise, the normal reason for an technology outage will likely be the normal stupid reasons for technology outages. ===

Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

LwntZg> *From: *"Sean Donelan" *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

Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

On Tue, 6 Oct 2020, Mike Hammett wrote: 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? Florida uses a CDN, like essentially

Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

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Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

looked at this, but maybe they have. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Sean Donelan" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 11:51:39 AM Subject: Florida: V

Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

Florida has had notoriously unreliable state I.T. infrastructure for years. Florida's unemployment websites were broken for months during the Spring 2020 COVID unemployment demand surge. So its very likely crappy state I.T. infrastructure problems being stressed by high volume. Florida vo

Re: Florida: Voter registration website overwhelmed at deadline

no indication of a DoS attack. __ *Justin Paine* He/Him/His Head of Trust & Safety 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107 *PGP:* BBAA 6BCE 3305 7FD6 6452 7115 57B6 0114 DE0B 314D

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