Chase.com site is down
Wow - one of the largest banks in the world -- JP Morgan Chase -- has a website outage in the prime U.S. business hours of the day. The company I work for is substantially smaller, but we use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) that hosts a friendly maintenance page whenever our "origin" web server farm goes down for planned maintenance or an unplanned outage. In addition, some top-tier DNS providers also have the capability to re-route web traffic to a fail-over/DR site to maintain up-time. Even if this is a DDoS attack, there are some technologies (including those in the aforementioned CDN) that can discard velocity attempts based on IP, geographic region, browser user-agents, etc. If it's a botnet, well certainly then the traffic can be a lot harder to discern from legit traffic. I'd be happy to consult with them for a tiny fraction of any lost revenue or negative dollar impact of this outage to help them improve their web architecture. Ha!