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The angle that a company responsible for hosting DNS, site hosting, SSL and similar services is incapable of bringing their own site back up without resorting t
by druiid 14y ago
The angle that a company responsible for hosting DNS, site hosting, SSL and similar services is incapable of bringing their own site back up without resorting to using a competitors services.
- mongol 14y agoYes but still.. why so very very nervous? I value that they get things working as soon as possible. After that I can switch.
- druiid 14y agoI'd say (although until seeing the DDoS numbers, I suppose I can't assume anything) that any large hosting provider like this should have an infrastructure in place for taking care of a large attack like this. To have any less at this late a stage in the game for them, speaks of a general enough incompetence as to be enough reason to move services, let alone 'political' type reasons. I've seen (and experienced) 10Gigabit+ DDoS attacks and generally they end up taking down the entire data-center, but that's smaller provider levels. I can't imagine that level of attack should take down Godaddy, but then who knows what they're actually running behind the scenes. Essentially, what I'm saying... is this is a large enough issue with the internet today that a provider this large should have had at least SOME protections in place for this already (And perhaps Verisign might have been a decent enough choice, or Prolexic...).
- mongol 14y agoYes.. it is very bad of them, I agree. I just don't see the point in being very nervous. They will sort it out and I can switch. It is not like my domain is stolen and can't be taken back.