[sdiy] Microchip website unavailable

[Ove Ridé]

On 7 December 2013 23:51, ASSI <Stromeko at nexgo.de> wrote:
> On Saturday 07 December 2013, 23:34:15, cheater00 . wrote:
>> Their server is likely just in a computing centre that's getting
>> DDOS'ed. Nothing unusual about it. They should get some offsite
>> mirrors and a round-robin DNS.
>
> Guess what, they already do that since years (through Akamai), just like any
> other corporation of their size.  Since it would be close to impossible to
> DDOS Akamai, the more likely culprit is the private source server(s) or
> their connection the content delivery network.

[citation needed]

microchip.com resolves to a single IP address without round robin.
This IP address is registered as owned by Microchip, ie they likely
host their own servers. From Google's cache, it seems like all static
resources are hosted on the same domain. I see no indication that they
are using Akamai or a similar CDN service. Maybe they should be doing
that, but they currently don't. If you think they do, please provide
some evidence.

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/Ove

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