Go Daddy: Network Issues, Not Hacks Or DDoS, Caused Downtime

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 11, 2012 @06:33AM from the but-a-random-internet-person-said-otherwise dept.

miller60 writes "GoDaddy says yesterday's downtime was caused by internal network problems that corrupted data in router tables. 'The service outage was not caused by external influences,' said Scott Wagner, Go Daddy's Interim CEO. 'It was not a 'hack' and it was not a denial of service attack (DDoS). ... At no time was any customer data at risk or were any of our systems compromised.' The outage lasted for at least six hours, and affected web sites and email for customers of the huge domain registrar."

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99.999% Doesn't mean what you think it means by Anonymous Coward · 2012-09-11 07:19 · Score: 4, Informative

They were down for 6 hours but still claim 99.999% uptime. But unless they have been around for more than 57 years, I dont' see how that is possible. Wonder what funky math they use to back up that number.
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=5+hours+%2F+(1-99.999%25)