Godaddy is down!
So web fans, I thought it was my ISP, but it's not. All Godaddy hosted sites are down. Yes you read that right. Why you may ask? I do not know, but there is a hypothesis it's related to Daylight Saving Time. I guess I have egg on my face that nothing major would happen due to DST. Apparently, when you don't update your servers bad things happen. In this case, according to reports, Godaddy did not bother to update their servers, as they are located in Arizona, which does not follow DST. Guess again, it seems. All Godaddy hosted sites are down, who knows when they shall return! Thank God only one of my low traffic sites is affected. As for other users, I smell lawsuit...
posted by Adrian at 3:08 PM
13 Comments:
hopefully someone is fired over this. this is so stupid. how could they not patch for DST?
How in the world could this be related to DST?
9 years ago computers didn't even update themselves, you had to do it manually.
Now everyone acts like this is some Y2K type bug.
It's one hour.
And they're right, Arizona clocks and computers made no change at 2:00 a.m. and they never will.
This change is purely esthetic so that tonight, on the East coast and in the Midwest at 7:00 p.m. the sun will still be out.
Oh well... Guess they will know better the next time... hahahahaha
...Or not...
There is a possibility there may be other reasons. Let's see if they admit the truth...
It's actually rather silly to assume that not patching your servers for an event that hasn't happened yet might have caused this.
If it was 2am on Monday, I might buy it, but knowing that infrastructure goes down all the time, I'd call this one a strange coincidence.
seems some people have misunderstood or misread my blog. My comment was: "there is a hypothesis it's related to Daylight Saving Time." I never said it was. I never knew why Godaddy went down. I was just offering a possibility. More likely I agree with the comment it's more likely "a strange coincidence". But like someone else said, I am not sure we'll ever know the truth....
they are down? Mine is up, never went down at all.
it was down earlier today ;0)
I was on my site all day and it never went down. Maybe not everyone was affected.
Sheesh people!
Why would this have happened Monday AM? DST changes are Saturday night (technically, Sunday AM).
Also, even though Arizona doesn't change THEIR clocks, everyone else does. Which means that the GoDaddy servers wouldn't trust everyone else who's time is "wrong."
And for those of you who didn't have any issues, have you ever heard of DNS caching? If not, and you're on a Windows-based computer, open a Command Prompt and type "ipconfig /displaydns" and look at that TTL value. That stands for Time-To-Live. Your ISP's DNS servers do the same thing. During that time, you won't ever touch GoDaddy's DNS servers, but will instead pull it from local cache.
Please use a little intelligence before posting on the web.
Wow, so this is how rumors become facts?
The truth is much simpler.
To Xaos--this post was done Sunday!
To Anon- I didn't start the rumours, I was speculating. Big diff. It has also been reported elsewhere some Godaddy employees said it was due to DST. Who knows the truth. It is a moving target depending on who reports it :)
godaddy is a piece of shit- I have to sites on them and their always down. They always come up with some bulshit line to. But to tell you the truth its to reduce your sites poularity. so that it doesnt use as much bandwidth.
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