I am going to just let this sit here http://www.dailychanges.com/ :) On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 9:59 AM, wrote: > Godaddy does have it's dirty laundry. And they are one of the best if not > the best vhost provider. GoDaddy was the first, as far as I know, and is > the most egregious in breaking apart what used to be the total vhost > package. > > I hosted my business website with them for years. I really liked their > webmail. When I switched to a mail client I had to move to their top trier > vhosting package to get imap. What started out as $4/mo hosting ended up as > $12/mo hosting once I added everything back in that I needed. That is why I > moved on. > > > > On 2014-06-25 11:48, Michael Butash wrote: >> >> On 06/25/2014 08:19 AM, Bryan O'Neal wrote: >> >>> Go Daddy's DNA service is one of the best in the world, their DNSSec >>> is the best I have ever seen, and they offer a variety of niche >>> items like vanity name servers. Plus they often sell domains at a >>> loss and the next ten largest competitors for actively served >>> authoritative zones don't add up to what they do. Now if Google >>> really becomes a competitor I bet Go Daddy would do something to run >>> the tides like start offering free premium service or increase thier >>> infrastructure. All of which would be amazing. >> >> Like with everything, "free" or "freemium" isn't always free. Godaddy >> gets theirs, and that's with marketing. Stewarding some 55m domains >> comes with the added benefit of you steer some part of 98% of the >> worlds infrastructure through you at some time or another, whether >> it's authoritative dns for the domain, root records, glue, or other. >> That's analytics they sell to microsoft, google, about anyone else >> they can sell it out to. >> >> Parkweb that floats the domains when no site is there by default (and >> serves, gee, ads go figure) for a large percent of those 55m domains >> make for prime real estate for revenue generating trackers and other >> things. So much so Microsoft paid them in partnerships to convert that >> from apache to iis back in the day [4], making "iis the most popular >> >> server on the internet" at the time per microsoft marketing jargon >> released the next day coincidentally. >> >> Now Google wants to snatch the pebble from their hand, one dns to >> rule/adword them all, and go to the source to bypass revenue to GD. >> Most people already use their *gracious* offer of free dns already, >> giving them the data now everything their pc connects a socket to and >> does a name lookup on. >> >> GD's infrastructure is actually pretty top notch already. You'd be >> amazed the battering it takes in ddos daily and keeps on ticking. That >> bit of DNS latency is infrastructure to keep it ticking... >> >> In full disclosure, I used to work there (twice actually), and know >> too much of the dirty laundry, as well as some pride in building that >> infrastructure. :) >> >> -mb >> >>> http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/ [3] >>> >>> >>> What ever happens I cam sure it will be cool :) >>> On Jun 24, 2014 10:44 PM, "Michael Butash" >>> wrote: >>> >>>> http://domains.google.com/about/ [1] >>>> >>>> >>>> Godaddy is about to have extreme competition, and they're >>>> worried. ;) >>>> >>>> -mb >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [2] >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [2] >> >> >> >> >> Links: >> ------ >> [1] http://domains.google.com/about/ >> [2] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> [3] http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/ >> [4] >> >> http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/04/june_2006_web_server_survey.html >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss