Pros and Cons of Cloud Computing in dealing with DDoS

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Sun Nov 8 22:34:22 UTC 2009


Sean Donelan wrote:
> 
> Oh, the cloud service provider won't negotiate, won't give you unlimited
> service credits, want to charge extra for that protection, don't want to
> make promises it will work, and so on :-)
> 
> The same unsolved problems from the 1970's mainframe/timesharing era
> still haven't been solved with virtualization/cloud/etc.
> 

I'm sorry, you must have not received the memo on how cloud computing is
the bee's knees and solves all those silly problems that only affect
non-cloud services. We'll get you a copy.

~Seth




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