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- fober, on 10/12/2007, -1/+55Is the girl in the commercials ok?
- Jericon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+48I find it disheartening that there are 14 articles listed which talk about GoDaddy's sites going down, most of which blaming DST, yet only one thus far that mentions the true issue. Dugg.
- Lax32, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40What kind of man would turn down being in a superbowl commercial with hot women by a company that pays you big dollars to do a 20 second ad on your podcast?
- tOnybOgs, on 10/12/2007, -2/+37Does anyone else find it funny that the majority of Digg users seems to hate GoDaddy, and yet Kevin Rose was featured in their superbowl commerical?
- gldfshnpcklejar, on 10/12/2007, -13/+45They deserve it, with their vile marketing practices. Especially the buying up of sites after you search their site to see if it's available.
- conradovina, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32To me, the real, deep, issue is their poor tech and customer support. They are gaining a lot of bad publicity, and thus, enemies.
- zdislaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Kevin wasn't just clocking time with hotties, he was lending his credibility to GoDaddy. And he and Alex don't simply read advert text from GoDaddy on the Diggnation podcast; They go out of their way to talk up how great GoDaddy is. In their own words. Over and over and over.
- Kazbaeden, on 10/12/2007, -11/+27100% agree with gldfshnpcklejar. When I saw this news, I danced down the street, humming a joyful tune. I'd like to shake the hand of the individual responsible, maybe even give him a medal.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+20***** GoDaddy, they've been complete ***** with all their power, would be swell to see them disappear.
- TheBarge, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16@Yarnage
Correct. They just wait for their high-traffic customers who used them as a registrar to forget to reregister their domains with GoDaddy so they can snap them up and place their GoDaddy pages there instead. Here's the webhostingtalk thread from customers discussing (ranting) the downtime:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=590476 - SamL, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Ummm, complaining about godaddy's service, so you moved to 1and1 ? Can I mod you +1, Funny?
- Akaji, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13Were I wearing a hat right now, it would be off to whomever did this. GoDaddy needs to be brought down. If they aren't going to follow the law by following through on their contracts, why should anyone follow the law in their dealings with (or attacks on) GoDaddy?
- dampeal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yeah thre of my sites were done for most of the day, even the GoDaddy main site was down as well, I couldn't get through to support to find out what the problem was, but I finally got an email though in the afternoon and got a response a couple hours ago, here's the response from them:
Thank you for contacting Online Support.
On March 11, some of our Go Daddy services came under significant and sustained distributed denial of service attacks resulting in intermittent disruptions of various services, including shared hosting and email.
After 4-5 hours of intermittent disruptions of various services, including shared hosting and email, the attack was contained.
Go Daddy has made and will be continuing to make significant investments in our information security infrastructure to protect from these shifting types of attacks.
Please let us know if we can help you in any other way.
Thank you,
Bob B.
Online Support Technician - lowerdown, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8that is what happens when you steal peoples domain names, and do it to the wrong person.
- CaptRR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I am guessing those weren't the ones in marketing. Everyone wants to work in marketing after all.
- essjay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Go Daddy won't just screw you over domains, they'll screw you with hosting as well. My site got to the digg front page, visits went up, Go Daddy *took it offline* and didn't even tell me! That's despicable customer service. How can I move hosts or throttle the traffic if i don't know they've taken the site down. And it took multiple support tickets to even figure that out.
- whackaxe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I wonder what Kevin and Alex are going to say when they get to the "right, sponsors! ok, GoDaddy..." part in next week's diggnation...
- jcaino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6ok, that's really, really sad.
most hosting companies that have any number of high(er) profile sites will experience attacks like this from time to time. the difference is how quick their support team responds. In a DDoS, there's not much you can do about getting the site(s) that are being attacked back up, but you can make adjustments at the routing level to fix traffic flow and therefor server load.
i've seen a couple of DDoS attacks go down, causing minimal effect to customers with another service. - mariusaz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Aparently they have some kind of labor dispute going on as well. I saw people outside of their Scottsdale office holding up signs on my way to Costco.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7You may not like godaddy, but being glad that a bunch of random user's websites were taken down isn't cool at all. A lot of people don't like the leadership of the US, would you be glad if we all get attacked? You're lumping their customers ideologies in with their CEOs, and I can guarantee 99.9% don't have a clue about Parsons or what he stands for.
- kyote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@zdislaw: I'm surprised you didn't get dugg down into oblivion for daring to speak ill of kevin. ;)
- Seften, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Karma. What do I get?
- Slugo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I have a couple domains & hosting with GoDaddy and have only good things to say about them. Over the last couple years I have had to call them for things and was never put on hold more than a minute to switch departments. In fact when I signed up for their hosting "They called Me" to ask if all is going well and if I needed any help with anything.
- K4P741NxKRUNCH, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5"His team is poring over packet captures to see if they can determine the source or motivation."
Packet captures show motivation?
What I really want to know though is how they can manage to have packet captures running constantly so that they can go pick back through them (with the number of packets a day in the billions) but yet they don't have some sort of DoS attack alert when the number of packets a second exceeds a certain level. Poor planning?? - micahman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator, webmaster@bloglessons.scott-m.net and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.
More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
That is what I got when I clicked the "Start Making Money" button at 4:38 PST. Guess your site got pwned too. - ascott9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have to say I have had a pleasant experience with godaddy. The phone tech support seems to be competent and they are fast to fix hosting issues. I also let a domain expire and after the hundreds of emails warning me they even called to make sure that I wanted to let it expire. Pretty good service to me. It also wasn't sneaky like everyone makes it seem to be.
- Kazbaeden, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@Yarnage
Sure, which is why a domain I searched for on godaddy is now the home of a godaddy branded parked page. - Mr.Chainsaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Bluehost got Ddos'd once every other month.
- Spinfusor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Assuming they don't have any other downtime this month they will have greater than 99% uptime.
Also, GoDaddy is number 11 in Netcraft's "Most Reliable Hosting Companies In February 2007" list:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2007/03/06/globix_hostway_and_kattare_most_reliable_hosting_companies_in_february_2007.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2GoDaddy hasn't let me down either. I was in fact very surprised that they were down, as I thought it was (like many others) my own fault. 99% uptime is still a guarantee I know they will always fulfill.
It's like WalMart in a sense.. It's fairly cheap, very convenient, yet a devil in the eyes of many consumers. GoDaddy is extremely cheap for domains and hosting, yet a devil in the eyes of many web developers. - xJVz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Hmm, maybe GoDaddy should have stuck with their old Apache servers? Apparently IIS isn't up to the task of sustaining a DDoS attack the way Apache is...
- skoops, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4...and now I cannot login into their control panel... it just keeps telling me that there's no account with my username...
- RichardAZ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2One of my sites was down on Sunday. I thought the world was coming to an end :)
- brasso, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Godaddy sucks... too bad this also affects their customers, but maybe it could make some of them to think about switching to another host.
- Wojek, on 10/12/2007, -1/+270kpps, that's it? Time to upgrade those 386's
- findhostcoupons, on 03/21/2009, -0/+1I see nothing unsual here! From time to time all hosts are hit by DDoS attacks!
- tower31, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Can you say KARMA....
- adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I can't say that 1 and 1 is any better, I signed up for one of their deals too. Then the next months bill had almost doubled after they started charging me all kinds of service fees I didn't sign up for, and the full price of the service package I got instead of the reduced 6 month deal that I had signed up for. After repeated calls and emails I finally just had the debit card I used to pay them with canceled and told them to go F off.
- 298th_Scat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3That was the suck when they went down. Several of my domains went with them. This was the second time I have had a problem with them, but truly it only takes one like this to make you want to switch.. Other then this crap I still prefer them over many of there ridiculously priced competitors.
- jerryparid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Damn, that must be a huge bot net. I wish I had that much to nail Hal Turner.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so thats why my domains were down....
and btw it was the name servers that were down, i host my own websites but let godaddy handle the dns. so no, ISS has nothing to do with it - meshman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1B-b-but some blogging jackass said it was DST. You mean, we can't trust blogging jackasses anymore?
- Hawker400, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I have several sites with GoDaddy and have never really had a problem with them. That being said, I'm definitely going to switch to a different hosting company once my hosting account is due.
- asshopo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice. My breakfast yesterday was iterupted 40-50 times with pages about our customers sites not working with our software. Good to know it wasn't actually my fault :-D.
- conradovina, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lucky you! Look at the reply they sent me:
http://www.methegeek.com/?p=31 - EricJ2190, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Alright. Not funny. Who dugg GoDaddy?
- zeromancer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it's weird to see 'the suck' instead of 't3h sux0rz' ... hurts my head a little. bit confusing too.
- Spinfusor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1My website was fine, but my email was down for a few hours.
- Tomson74, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1man u guys just bitch about everything
- ch28kid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1so much for the 99% up time.
such BS! -
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