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Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by watty »

ry0ohki wrote: post #84
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet every other month we have posts about password breaches with tons of HN users complaining about having to change their passwords. Or we have posts from people who didn't back up their data and their cloud provider lost it, or experienced hardware failure. Or we have technically savvy people who dismiss GoDaddy problems or have literally in the past said "It's good enough, we'll just stay because it's easy". S…

The reasons not to use GoDaddy in the past have been entirely moral/political, not technical. I've been using them for 10 years without a DNS issue like this, so it's not quite the same thing.

Completely agree. The small business I work for has used GoDaddy from the start and has had outstanding uptime. Sure the interface is horrible but that doesn't affect our customers.

So, now what do we switch to?

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by etagwerker »

tux1968 wrote: post #80
nord wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My thoughts exactly. This isn't affecting just GoDaddy but a great number of other sites (including mine, unfortunately).

That's kinda the point though isn't it? Why is anyone still using GoDaddy after SOPA / elephant killing / earlier outages / etc? For me at least, there's no excuse in supporting this company with my business.

I'd switched half of my domains to Namecheap. I was waiting to migrate the other half. I do not support them, but I had hired their service before SOPA and I just didn't want to pay twice.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by watty »

drivebyacct2 wrote: post #90
ry0ohki wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reasons not to use GoDaddy in the past have been entirely moral/political, not technical. I've been using them for 10 years without a DNS issue like this, so it's not quite the same thing.

That's simply not true. And even if you ignore strictly technical problems they've had in the past (and the technical issues I had helping a non-profit with a hacked GoDaddy instance on a shared box that they disclaimed responsibility for), their moral/political problems are technical problems as well. As far as I'm concerned, failing to follow a DMCA properly and instead simply re-routing DNS requests in the meantim…

I'm curious, how did you narrow it down to GoDaddy as being the culprit? Let me guess, you used a popular CMS?

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by ckrailo »

letslink wrote: post #148

GoDaddy never struck me as a particularly evil corporation, just practical. But I would be interested to hear any recommendations for an alternative hosting company, and the logic behind the choice.

For hosting alternatives, you'd have to describe what you want. Heroku for rails is nice and is built on Amazon's EC2 stuff (which you could use for other apps)... for VPSes, I like Linode a lot.

For DNS, I recommend dnsimple. They do DNS and domain registration for my three domains and their UI is amazing. Here's a referral link that, if used, gives both of us one month free DNS service (which is only $3 anyway). https://dnsimple.com/r/96a980397648e9

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by unreal37 »

qeorge wrote: post #56
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #5

If you are using GoDaddy for anything, you deserve what you get. If you are using GoDaddy for not just registration but also for DNS, I would just fix it as soon as possible and not tell anyone. Also, do backups, use good password practices, and everything else that everyone knows and the lazy will still fail to do. Oh, 20 seconds in and a downvote. I can take them, I didn't ignore the last 8 problems GoDaddy has bee…

This is an example of comments that are hurting HN's quality. Absolutely nothing useful to add to the discussion, just snark. Yet for some reason its the highest voted comment.

I agree. As much as I don't like GoDaddy and have already moved most of my domains away from them, I don't like seeing someone say "you got what you deserved for using them". What a mean thing to say.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by unreal37 »

TomGullen wrote: post #63
qeorge wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an example of comments that are hurting HN's quality. Absolutely nothing useful to add to the discussion, just snark. Yet for some reason its the highest voted comment.

I think it's a collective release of pent up frustration over GoDaddy's operations, ethics and politics.

Pent up? People have been hating on GoDaddy for years. Nothing is pent up.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by letslink »

ckrailo wrote: post #156
letslink wrote: post #148

GoDaddy never struck me as a particularly evil corporation, just practical. But I would be interested to hear any recommendations for an alternative hosting company, and the logic behind the choice.

For hosting alternatives, you'd have to describe what you want. Heroku for rails is nice and is built on Amazon's EC2 stuff (which you could use for other apps)... for VPSes, I like Linode a lot. For DNS, I recommend dnsimple. They do DNS and domain registration for my three domains and their UI is amazing. Here's a referral link that, if used, gives both of us one month free DNS service (which is only $3 anyway). ht…

Thanks for the tips, ckrailo. Will check those out.
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