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" <michael@butash.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> http://domains.google.com/about/ [1]
>>>
>>> Godaddy is about to have extreme competition, and they're
>>> worried. ;)
>>>
>>> -mb
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> Links:
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> [1] http://domains.google.com/about/
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> [3] http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/
> [4]
> http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2006/06/04/june_2006_web_server_survey.html
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