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Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem

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Re: Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem

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Post by someotherperson »

nicoburns wrote: post #19
kettleballroll wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What alternative can you recommend?

Namecheap are reliable and well-priced

But their ethics are rock bottom. So maybe use of the many competitors mentioned here instead of giving money to this outfit.

Re: Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem

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Post by sieabahlpark »

ziml77 wrote: post #21
jsheard wrote: post #2

Does anyone here even use Gandi anymore since they got acquired and hiked their prices to the moon? They want $40/year for a .com now, it's absurd.

Is price the only negative about them? I know the sentiment around Gandi here is negative, but the one time I needed to handle a domain issue recently they were super quick on the support. The problem was even my fault for messing up the ID info I'd provided (requirement of the registry for that TLD), but they got me back up and running 20 minutes after I sent their legal team the corrected info.

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Re: Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem

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Post by arcanemachiner »

homebrewer wrote: post #37
rom16384 wrote: post #36

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What registar do you recommend? I used Gandi because it was a no-nonsense registar, even if a bit more expensive.

Cloudflare sells domains at cost, if you can stomach them.

Porkbun is cheap as well, and has the bonus feature of not being Cloudflare.

Re: Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem

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Post by srhngpr »

kettleballroll wrote: post #5
jsheard wrote: post #2

Does anyone here even use Gandi anymore since they got acquired and hiked their prices to the moon? They want $40/year for a .com now, it's absurd.

What alternative can you recommend?

Piggybacking on this comment, what about alternatives for good/basic shared hosting? (i.e., PHP, MySQL, etc.) I've got a few WP sites that I maintain where I need keep something reliable, secure/trusted, and relatively low-cost.

Re: Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem

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Post by kemotep »

genewitch wrote: post #35
maeln wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And their mailbox offering is also overpriced. 5.99€/month (and it use to be pricier! they recently decreased the price) for 10Go and very basic email features. Fastmail is 5€ for 60Go, masked email, and a few other things (not in the EU tho).

I used to pay $5/yr for fastmail but that plan is now $15/yr, but I only get 0.5GB of storage. So it's like $1.05/month!

I pay $5 a month (50 a year technically) for fastmail and get a 50 gb mailbox and 10 gb cloud storage. How old is your account?

Re: Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem

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Post by sillysaurusx »

someotherperson wrote: post #41
nicoburns wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Namecheap are reliable and well-priced

But their ethics are rock bottom. So maybe use of the many competitors mentioned here instead of giving money to this outfit.

Any proof? Or… anything?

Re: Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem

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Post by nicoburns »

someotherperson wrote: post #41
nicoburns wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Namecheap are reliable and well-priced

But their ethics are rock bottom. So maybe use of the many competitors mentioned here instead of giving money to this outfit.

Do you have more information on this? First I've heard of this.
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