GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft 445
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."
Incredible! (Score:5, Funny)
This is when we all say (Score:0, Funny)
Netcraft confirms it - the haiku (Score:5, Funny)
News at eleven
All your base to Microsoft.
Re:I saw the go daddy pres/CTO speak a while back (Score:5, Funny)
Well, there's no doubt that when all is said and done
I need Windows reliability for my parked domain! (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:Incredible! (Score:2, Funny)
It had to be said... (Score:5, Funny)
Marketing Ideas (Score:5, Funny)
"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.)
GoDaddy can... (Score:2, Funny)
Ok so I've already said that [slashdot.org] in the last Slashdot story [slashdot.org] 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.
That's fair. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Who cares? (Score:5, Funny)
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!
Re:best line in the whole article. (Score:2, Funny)
Let them go with that and let real OSs handle the real job
You mean below where it says CD-R? (Score:3, Funny)
makes perfect sense (Score:1, Funny)
Re:It's just an OS (Score:5, Funny)
So in this case it's WAMP.
Or WIMP if you use IIS...
Re:It's just an OS (Score:1, Funny)
Good deal for GoDaddy (Score:2, Funny)
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.
Re:Incredible! (Score:3, Funny)
"I am Gandhi of the Indians. Our words are backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS
We have decided to rid the world of your worthless civilization. Prepare for WAR"
Speechless ... (Score:2, Funny)
I haven't the words.