Posts Tagged ‘akamai’


Whitehouse.gov Analysis

A few notes on the new whitehouse.gov website as I did for the campaign sites after about 5 minutes of sniffing around:

Running Microsoft-IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET 2.0.50727. The Bush administration ran Apache on what I think was some sort of Unix. Data is gzip’d.
Whitehouse.gov is using Akamai as a CDN and for DNS [...]

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in In The News, Internet, Politics | 5 Comments »

Redefining Broadband

The FCC for years has been considering any connection greater than 200kbps to be broadband. For the past several years that’s been pretty misleading. In addition, they only collect downstream, not upstream. They also consider an entire zip code to have broadband if only 1 home can get it. That’s not [...]

Sunday, June 15th, 2008 Posted in Internet, Politics | 5 Comments »

Secrets In Websites II

This post is a follow up to the first Secrets In Websites. For those who don’t remember the first time, I point out odd, interesting, funny things in other websites’ code. Yes it takes some time to put a post like this together, that’s why it’s just about a year since the last [...]

Friday, January 11th, 2008 Posted in Around The Web, Google, Mozilla | 68 Comments »

FoxTorrent

I said back in 2004 that Firefox needs built in support for BitTorrent. My idea was it would be integrated into the download manager so that it was “just another protocol” and would be transparent to a typical user. I still stand by that.
Fast forward to 2007: FoxTorrent is by RedSwoosh (now owned [...]

Friday, April 27th, 2007 Posted in Mozilla | 8 Comments »

Akamai taken out by bot network

Doesn’t this creep you out? Akamai, an extremely robust network, designed for those who need intensive server-side power, taken out by a bot network.
14,000 servers in 1,100 networks in 65+ countries.
Just makes you wonder how vulnerable the internet really is. Yea, it’s a web, and not based on a central [...]

Wednesday, June 16th, 2004 Posted in Internet | No Comments »