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By Julian Goldsmith

Published: Monday 05 November 2007


Name

Stephen Meredith


Location

Leeds UK


Occupation

Marketing Dircetor - IT security


Comment

One of the causes of poor online experience lies in the seasonal nature of the nation's shoppng habits. Many Web servers are just not geared up to handle the huge increases in traffic that occur during the main shopping periods such as Christmas which in effect act just like a DDoS attack. Some of the more enlightened e-tailers have made the necessary investment but there are still far too many who either choose to ignore the risk or maybe don't understand it in the first place.



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  2. Management
  3. Networks
  4. Software
  5. IT Services
  6. Hardware
  1. Verticals
  2. Public Sector
  3. Financial Services
  4. Retail & Leisure
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