June 15, 2004

Akamai Issues

I've been having problems accessing Yahoo Mail and My Yahoo portal for over 24 hours and now we know why. Akamai is under a major denial of service attack, which is affecting 400 of its customers including Yahoo, Google, and eBay. I wouldn't want to be the tech guy at Akamai right now; his job and his company is on the line. The whole point of Akamai's service is the performance and redundancy benefits of decentralized content servers. Ouch. Read