GoDaddy… Go… Gone
Today the Godaddy servers have been hit by a simple DDOS – a distributed denial of service involving a few dozen clients or servers that fire off hundreds or even thousands of requests a second at their servers. It’s a simple attack, and very effective. It’s like Arnold Schwarzenegger in Kindergarten Cop, standing in the [...]
Cloud.com Scores A Big Win With GoDaddy
GoDaddy, the domain registrar, yesterday unveiled their cloud plans with a goal to eat into the public cloud pie. They are calling their service Data Center On Demand and it is currently in limited release phase. It is generally expected to be available in July. Unlike Amazon Web Services, GoDaddy’s plans requires customers to have [...]
Chase Bank Loses Customer’s … No, Not Money, Just Email
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words – so here’s my 2k-word essay, straight from Chase Online: OK, that should be easy, let’s click to get that email: Oops – dear Chase, where’s my message? Of course on the week when the IMF and the US Senate gets hacked, GoDaddy goes down [...]
