Companies like GoDaddy.com that are responsible for safeguarding e-commerce sites and Web infrastructures should ensure they have the proper technology in place to deal with mounting DDoS attacks. With the state of the economy being what it is right now, it’s essential that online stores remain open and running when a customer is ready to make a purchase. In this instance, customers were understandably upset about their sites being down and were quick to complain. Los Angeles based lifestyle blog LA Snark even posted a response to GoDaddy.com.

E-commerce merchants can remain confident that their customers will encounter a positive user experience if their Web-hosting company is well prepared to deal with these kinds of security threats. That said, the problem has grown considerably larger over recent years. In a recent report on DDoS trends published in late 2008, large scale attacks of 40Gbps or more are being seen. (Link To Arbor Report) Most hosting providers are not able to accommodate such levels of attack and this seems to be pointing to more managed security in the Cloud going forward being delivered by Tier 1 carriers and security providers with this kind of bandwidth. The real question becomes at what point with an increasingly Internet based economy does this level of protection become required versus a nice to have?