http://news.yahoo.com/godaddy-outage-takes-small-business-sites-195122316--finance.html Yikes! Looks like the entire network went down. That should never happen.
To be fair to GoDaddy I don't think many hosting companies would have survived the attack. That said website owners need to plan for these things and think of website monitoring services and back-up servers. You can use a website monitoring service to check your website every few minutes, and if it spots its down not only alert you, but ping another URL to bring up your back-up - e.g. Amazon. It's potentially not only a day's revenues lost for GoDaddy websites, but their reputation. If someone went to a website and saw it down you think they'll go back again?
Agreed, but it's a great example of why you should spread your servers out between geographic locations and datacenters. If one datacenter should go belly-up for a while, your entire client base is down. I'm actually surprised that a company that big only uses one location for all their servers.
Not this time Godaddy servers went down several times. They must be saying it it was a DDoS Attacks bla bla bla.. But you check even the DP you will find 100s of results which prove you that Godaddy DNS servers are never been strong even when wasn't the DDoS! Scary but truth!
Minutes after this happened I heard about it. Quite a suprise to me, GoDaddy being the size they are. I would of thought that they would have had more precautions in place. Why they hosted their own site on their network I don't know. Sure you might trust your network, but even so, you can't guarantee 100% uptime which you crucially need on large business websites.