The True Cost of a DDoS Attack on Businesses

A DDoS attack (Distributed Denial of Service) is one of the most dangerous cyber threats, capable of bringing down an entire network by overwhelming it with fake traffic. The financial and operational impact of such an attack is devastating, with businesses suffering significant downtime, lost revenue, and long-term reputational damage. Studies reveal that small to …

What is DNS load balancing?

DNS Load balancing is the method of configuring a domain in the Domain Name System (DNS). With it, the user’s requests to the domain are distributed over a number of servers. For example, a domain can correspond to a website, a mail system, a print server, or another produced service accessible through the Internet. It …

Anycast DNS – History

Anycast DNS is an excellent technology. But, it actually took more than 30 years to get to the level that it is today. The first documented use of anycast routing for topological load-balancing of Internet-connected services was in 1989. The technique was first formally documented in the IETF four years later in RFC 1546. Anycast …