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Massive Number of GoDaddy WordPress Blogs Hacked
A nasty little exploit has hit a large number of GoDaddy-hosted WordPress blogs this weekend. The best part is that the exploit only executes when the traffic is referred by Google, making it the sort of thing that site maintainers won't easily notice. Clever and devious.
There's a lot of money to be made catering to the general public who's too ignorant to know good service from bad.
Their service is great, it just works 100%. Renewed my domain for ten years back in '05, expires in 2015. Never a problem. The service they provide to me, is pointing my domain name to my dns servers, thats all. I have no idea how much or little their other services may or may not suck, but its kind of pointless, like comparing the quality of the bottled apple juice at walmart to the quality of the hunting rifle ammo at walmart...
Now their marketing website currently looks like a very bad parody of an early tween-ager myspace page. And I've heard bad things about their customer service, but I'll only interact with them via website once per decade, so that puts them lightyears ahead of most major companies.
McDonalds would never survive if the average customer only visited once a decade, I'm missing the point of the endless stripper ads on TV.
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
The assumption that GoDaddy is horrible and has horrible service is false. People make this assumption because they use sex to sell and they have low prices. People assume these two combination also mean poor service and complete incompetence. This could not be further from the truth. Ask ANY technically minded person who has given GoDaddy a chance and they will tell you about the value of their inexpensive services and domain names. I have personally used them for 3 years running to host my website http://www.shezphoto.com/ with wordpress. I use their shared hosting economy plan which is like $3 a month if you pay for a year and I have had to call technical support to fix a problem zero times. I did call them one time to figure out how to migrate my WP database to the new version of MySQL and they emailed me explicit directions and they worked perfectly. Yes I installed using the "One click install" but I also have since then kept my WP install up to date and I have strong passwords on my admin accounts and my ftp and databases as well. You will notice I was not hacked.
I also bought my domain name through them. I challenge all of you to find me a more reliable company who charges the same amount as GoDaddy for domain names. Plus GoDaddy isn't evil like Network Solutions is. NS will put a lock on a domain name you view through their website so you cannot then purchase it through another vendor for less. GoDaddy never does this. GoDaddy may try to up sell you but you can easily choose to ignore all of that and then you get a domain name for less then anywhere else that is purchased through a reputable and honest company.
Why people trash GoDaddy all the time without ever having used them is beyond me. It's just childish. It's like saying "Eww Girls" because you find out they don't have penises. It's ok Slashdot... you can get over your fear of the unknown.