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Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by thedudemabry »

dbecker wrote: post #105
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but anyone would say the same thing if I complained about QoS on one of those hugely over-sold shared PHP hosting sites. Are there really a lot of "not-too-savvy" folks who understand that they need GoDaddy to provide them DNS servers but know better than to use someone else for DNS services and/or registration? Maybe I underestimate the size of that population. I should and do apologize.…

I would would guess there are is a huge population of not-too-savvy folks who use GoDaddy for registration... and they aren't even aware that registration and DNS can be separated. At least, I assumed they aren't putting Danica Patrick in Super-Bowl commercials for the benefit of the HN crowd.

Agreed. All of my domains have used alternatives for the last few years (Google and Name.com). But my less tech-savvy self registered my legal name domain (and variants) around six years ago with GoDaddy and never switched the DNS management over. Big mistake. Now my blog is unreachable via DNS during a job search. Better update my resume links!

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by arihant »

GoDaddy has been providing me with excellent customer support for a decade. I'm not sure what the hate is all about.

Sure, they didn't take my side in the SOPA debate, but I'd rather live in a world where everyone is entitled to their opinion.

I'm also not comfortable with a group calling themselves "Hackers" giving my profession a foul name by activities like this. This is like bombing a nation which doesn't have same views as yours. Hackers, they are not. Shameful.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by ckrailo »

maratd wrote: post #14
executive wrote: post #6

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or Nettica

or Rackspace, which is free and has an API http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/dns/ There are many, many options.

Since we're giving options...

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 dvanduzer »

j_s wrote: post #106
dvanduzer wrote: post #37

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$50 a month for DNS hosting? Even $50 a year sounds like too much. I'd take a gander at Amazon's Route 53: http://aws.amazon.com/route53/#pricing

Lots of places provide DNS for free to upsell other services: http://www.dnshat.com/free-dns.html http://www.cloudflare.com/plans

Places like GoDaddy, for example.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by ckrailo »

mythz wrote: post #121

What are the best DNS servers that can be used instead?

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 roadnottaken »

philip1209 wrote: post #146

I have a client that uses Godaddy email - I assume this means that any emails sent during the outage will be forever lost.

I was just wondering about this. Does anyone know what happens to e-mails sent to domains that aren't resolving? Do they really just get lost?

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by dvanduzer »

benologist wrote: post #145
shebson wrote: post #33

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These are instructions on how to move your domain, not migrate to different DNS servers. Moving away from GoDaddy in general might be a good idea, but if you're just looking to migrate to another DNS service like Route53, this isn't what your looking for.

Migrating DNS is easy: 1) Get a new DNS server. I use http://dnspark.net/ and even though their website is very ugly and there's no API, they're tremendous value at $10 - $14 per year 2) In your registrar's page (godaddy) change your DNS servers for your domain to whatever your new ones are.

Route53 is currently $6+ per year per domain.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by ckrailo »

letslink wrote: post #159
ckrailo wrote: post #156

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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.

Sure! Two more tips...

!) Look for hosting companies that are targeting developers (Linode and Heroku are both good at this). The tools and UI will be more sane and you'll have a more pleasant interaction.

2) Avoid bargain bin VPS services for anything that's not a playground. If it can't disappear tomorrow forever, it's not bargain-bin material.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by uxp »

philip1209 wrote: post #146

I have a client that uses Godaddy email - I assume this means that any emails sent during the outage will be forever lost.

Most (properly configured) MTAs will queue and retry, so any unsent mail shouldn't be blindly discarded. Postfix, for example, defaults to a queue lifetime of 5 days.
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