I just got an email from GoDaddy beginning: 'Todays Lesson -...'. I thought this might go into their service being down, backups or failover protection.
But no, it carried on to: 'Today's Lesson - SAVINGS! 20% OFF*'
GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down
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#132Latest mirror from archive.org for those experiencing the slashdot effect: http://web.archive.org/web/20110724055653/http://www.godaddy...
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#133If 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…
Thousands of mid-sized to small business, run by people too busy to read hacker news or other sources of geekery, have no idea why they should consider not using GoDaddy. A response like this is part of the problem, and not even close to being a solution or advice.
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#134OK-- long shot here: Would anybody happen to have (or know how I can get) the ip address for yiiframework.com?
107.20.134.47
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's shameful is that millions of not-too-savvy decided to make a serious decision without becoming savvy about domain registration. Profound? No, just pathetic.
How come I can't reply to TomGullen's remark? F-you HN.
Try this link:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4501489
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#136I tried to set up my site on CloudFlare but it say's that it's not a valid domain name. I think they might be checking the DNS records for the site before you can set it up so it appears to be invalid. Does anyone know a way around this?
It seems there is no way around it, http://support.cloudflare.com/kb/troubleshooting/why-am-i-ge... - so can anyone recommend other DNS providers? (preferably free)
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
You are what is hurting HN's quality.
How come others get to downvote my comments but I don't like-wise? This is what's hurting HN. Black box phenomenon like this. No information about the commenting process. Maybe reddit is on to something after all. The designer of this site is one arrogant sob.
This just in: "Pointless Arguments Over What's Hurting Hacker News are Hurting Hacker News."
Just knock it off and get back to posting interesting discussion. If you're not doing that, you're contributing to the "hurting of HN." And I'm well within my understanding of hypocrisy and irony to be aware of the fact that I'm committing this exact fault, so thanks for pointing that out, you're so intelligent.
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#138Shouldn't we all know to use hover.com by now? Don't you all listen to 5by5 podcasts?! :)
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#139I tried to set up my site on CloudFlare but it say's that it's not a valid domain name. I think they might be checking the DNS records for the site before you can set it up so it appears to be invalid. Does anyone know a way around this?
It seems there is no way around it, http://support.cloudflare.com/kb/troubleshooting/why-am-i-ge... - so can anyone recommend other DNS providers? (preferably free)
I've had good success in the past with http://www.zoneedit.com/
It's not free but close enough to it for your purposes here.
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#140Earlier 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.
Moral/political reasons aside, have you ever seen their UI? Try registering for a domain and get an idea of how aggressively and unabashedly they try to upsell you things you have zero need for, how difficult they make it to "transfer" domains. Generally, these practices are good signs of trouble, and a good hint that it's better to take business elsewhere. I should not have to spend hours upon hours wading through B…
While those things are certainly annoying, they take up about 10 minutes per year of my time. Yes, GoDaddy has lots of issues, but it's not like other registrars are any better. E.g. on the front page of NameCheap they advertise that .com domains are 3.99, but when you actually do a lookup they in fact cost $10.69.