Comments on: The DDos That Wasn’t

By: GoDaddy outages and business travel: This week in IT quotes - Enterprise IT Watch Blog

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:44:31 +0000

[...] customers down and we know it.” – GoDaddy CEO Scott Wagner expressing his displeasure after 52 million websites were taken down on Monday. Confusion still remains over what caused the outage but it does cause trust issues [...]

By: mheusser

mheusser — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 17:11:52 +0000

hey! That beats a poke in the eye with a sharp stick!

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 16:49:46 +0000

In this case the credit offered is for the value of one month, but I’m sure for many companies the negative impact of those down hours is much greater than that.

By: mheusser

mheusser — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:43:21 +0000

Thanks Ben. At $120/year, I think my rebate will work out 120/(365*4), or about 8 cents. I suppose, for a modestly large internet property, that might be a few hundred dollars. Which brings up the question – how does a modestly large internet property value the cost of being down for six hours?

By: brubensteintt

brubensteintt — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:40:59 +0000

Looks like GoDaddy is offering a credit for affected users. http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/were-you-affected-by-the-godaddy-outage/. Not sure if that smooths things over for some sites.