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GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft
RobertB-DC writes "Bargain-basement registrar GoDaddy.com has decided to move all its parked domains to Microsoft servers, saying that they'll provide 'a technology platform that is security-enhanced, highly scalable and easy to manage.' This is a shift away from Linux, a decision met with derision by other registrars such as Gandi.net, which greeted the news with the headline 'Go Daddy and never come back'. Late last year, GoDaddy.com had some 'issues', shall we say, with non-Microsoft browsers."
Ghandi never struck me as the kind of guy who trashtalks others. Well you learn something new everyday, I suppose.
Who cares?
GoDaddy has jumped the shark,
News at eleven
All your base to Microsoft.
The filesystem is the package manager
... and that MSFT was bending over backwards to meet their needs.
... someone will be bending over and it won't be Microsoft.
Well, there's no doubt that when all is said and done
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
When I waste money registering misspelled domain names and register tons of word combinations while speculating on new product names, I need somewhere that can handle the strenuous demands of parking my domains.
I'm not stupid - I wouldn't trust the job of handling web redirects to any of that old legacy stuff like UNIX. That stuff was old back when I was using Windows 3.1... and Windows has gotten a lot better since then. When people try to access my domainnames, I expect the performance of Geniune Windows.
I know that sometimes domain names need to be rebooted too, like when critical updates get applied, but that's okay. I wouldn't want my domain names parked on an unpatched, so-called "highly available" server.
No sir, it's genuine-windows-advantage-plays-for-sure for me and my domain collection.
... Who's your daddy now?
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"Microsoft, the preferred platform for content-free websites"
"Microsoft, recommended by 9 out of 10 get-rich quick customers"
Seems kind of appropriate that MS is out to capture the scammer segment of the market, doesn't it? (Apologies to folks who park sites to protect themselves from scam artists.)
Microsoft has just released their much anticipated hands-free cordless mouse. Warning, it may hurt a little at first.
GoDaddy can GoFuckThemSelves.
Ok so I've already said that in the last Slashdot story about GoDaddy. But really, I didn't have any interest in doing business with GoDaddy before (though do buy domain names occasionally), and if they are stupid enough to choose Microsoft products for their servers, well I don't I'll ever have interest in doing business with them.
#!/
Most of the other servers hold xxx% of the Internet, and the remaining 5 hold the tech/geek content.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
Well, hey, maybe IIS returns empty HTML documents faster than Apache.
Or maybe they hope to obfuscate their security by running Apache on Windows. Send all the malformed POST requests you want. Win32 isn't going to successfully execute your Linux code!
The road to tyranny has always been paved with claims of necessity.
That's what MS servers are good for - parking domains.
Let them go with that and let real OSs handle the real job
my sstream of consciousness
It doesn't say much there.
Wanted: Clever sig, top $ paid, all offers considered.
Well of course they're going to Microsoft - they're pro torture. GoDaddy's CEO's Blog.
No need to - the "AMP" part of LAMP runs on Windows as well.
So in this case it's WAMP.
Or WIMP if you use IIS...
I live in Soviet Canuckistan you insensitive clod!
Is that a foofoobar in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
The parked domains are practically worthless properties anyhow.
Whatver MS did for GoDaddy has to look nice on the balance sheet compared to the piss-poor performance of properties that would be better off deleted.
I scream. You scream. I assume that means we're both acquainted with the problem. We proceed.
"The Microsoft Solution for Windows-based Hosting supports GoDaddy.com's low-cost, high-value strategy by providing a technology platform that is security-enhanced, highly scalable and easy to manage."
:-)
I haven't the words.
The less confident you are, the more serious you have to act.