Web Hosting Strategies

Analysis and review of the web hosting and managed services industry by Doug Kaye.

Load Balancing. Vivek Veek explains load balancing and discusses some of the issues surrounding LB technologies at Load Balancing Web Applications. This overview of load-balancing schemes compares the relative advantages of DNS round robin, hardware load balancers, and Web server proxies. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 5:05:33 PM

Why CDNs? In case you're not convinced that it's important to try and deliver content from the edge, check out the latest event advisory from Matrix.net. "The average latency from Europe and the United States has reached a level close to 800 milliseconds. This increase in average latency may be due to a malfunction in one of the saix.net routers in New York City." Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 4:01:35 PM

A War of Words. Security guru and commentator Bruce Schneier describes a new class of security threat we all need to be more aware of. (Crypto-Gram, from October 15, 2000) Semantic Attacks: The Third Wave of Network Attacks. [Tomalak's Realm] Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 1:40:20 PM

DIY Security. There are some valuable free downloadable documents here. In an article entitled New Information Systems Security Self-assessment Guide Hits The Streets, security expert Mark Merkow discusses the recently released a security self-assessment guide from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The guide aims to help both governmental agencies and civilian commercial organizations with a standardized assessment tool to verify and validate their security implementations. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service] Posted Friday, September 28, 2001 1:38:18 PM

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