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Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by dvanduzer »

saurik wrote: post #252
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.

So, I had both upvoted that guy's comment and flagged this entire thread (as in, the top-level post). To me, and I think to many other people, what is actually the core problem with HN is that it is being flooded with a ton of what is pretty much "spam": posts that are either repetitive (either to content from years ago, or even to content from last week) or content that are informing people of things that should be…

I'd love to hear of more DNS providers that do slaving / zone transfers, if you know of some.

The biggest pressure here is speed, though. A timeout on a failed DNS lookup is an eternity when you're aiming for sub-second page loads.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by alanh »

Natsu wrote: post #263
jat850 wrote: post #112

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At the risk of further degenerating into meta discussion, I'll answer your question: Downvoting privileges are opened up at a certain karma threshold. The number has changed a number of times in the past and I believe it's currently at around a floor of 500-600 karma. There are guidelines surrounding commenting/submissions here: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Also, note that you cannot downvote anyone who replies to you.

Or posts older than a day or two, I believe.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by walkon »

saurik wrote: post #252
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.

So, I had both upvoted that guy's comment and flagged this entire thread (as in, the top-level post). To me, and I think to many other people, what is actually the core problem with HN is that it is being flooded with a ton of what is pretty much "spam": posts that are either repetitive (either to content from years ago, or even to content from last week) or content that are informing people of things that should be…

You don't find it interesting that one of the largest DNS service providers has had a major outage rendering browsing many websites virtually impossible for several business hours? Not every site I am interested in using is maintained by readers of HN who should (perhaps) know better.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by Zak »

Cushman wrote: post #54
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…

Millions of normal not-too-savvy folks use GoDaddy because to them it's synonymous with domain registration. They profoundly do not deserve their sites to be down for that. For shame.

I don't care for the tone of "deserve" in this context, but there are two ways to look at the term.

One is in a moral sense - something along the lines of "If you use GoDaddy, you share its guilt for its bad acts and deserve punishment". That's unfair, of course.

Another possible meaning is that anyone who fails to research something as important as a domain name registrar is suffering the natural consequences of their actions when a poor choice causes them problems. A person doesn't have to be very savvy to read the Wikipedia article and see that GoDaddy has been involved in several high-profile controversies regarding mistreatment of customers.

I don't think someone asserting the second should be shamed, though it doesn't seem to be very valid. I didn't come up with much negative information outside of the Wikipedia article when I avoided search terms specifically related to known issues.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by ceejayoz »

bwhite wrote: post #217
watty wrote: post #151

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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?

You want EasyDNS ( https://web.easydns.com/ ). Transparent, care about (D)DOS, pretty good UI.

I've been slowly moving away since the new UI. Hate it.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by ceejayoz »

ApsoFacto wrote: post #186
billirvine wrote: post #133

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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.

Spot on, Bill. My experiences with GD have been nothing but stellar... for the last ten years!

How on earth did you manage to avoid My Account for 10 years?

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

DASD wrote: post #275
saurik wrote: post #252

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So, I had both upvoted that guy's comment and flagged this entire thread (as in, the top-level post). To me, and I think to many other people, what is actually the core problem with HN is that it is being flooded with a ton of what is pretty much "spam": posts that are either repetitive (either to content from years ago, or even to content from last week) or content that are informing people of things that should be…

Unfortunately lack of hosting-related knowledge is indicative through and through here even to the actual startups out of YC. Is it too much to ask for someone to know the latest buzz about Rails but can't spell DNS? Good luck if you choose this as your crusade to educate. http://syskall.com/yc-w12-startups-hosting-decisions http://jpf.github.com/domain-profiler/ycombinator.html

"Good luck if you choose" to start a startup without understanding one of the most fundamental technologies that allows users to view your site.

Re: GoDaddy's DNS Service is Down

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Post by drivebyacct2 »

watty wrote: post #288
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #248

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I don't know as I didn't set it up, but I've used shared cpanels in the past and they give you one-click WordPress installs and advertised as a "one-click full solution". Either way, when it came down to it, one of their other shared clients were compromised and their sandboxing was rather insufficient leading to most of the clients on that box having some sort of malware installed. I'm sure the person in question wa…

Well here's how it works. GoDaddy and all other host's "one-click" is installation only. It doesn't auto-update your WordPress install so yours likely contained an old security exploit and was easily hacked. This is by design, it would be bad to install a WP theme and then have your website broken because it auto-updated WP. Even so, you never answered my original question. How'd you determine it was a sandboxing pro…

Yes, I did answer.

They. Told. Me. It. Was. Their. Fault.

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