Comment Re:Tucows are cowards! (Score 1) 293
Yes, I know they claim it was to protect their other customers, but tossing your baby to the lion to keep it from from attacking everyone else is reprehensible and I thought civilization had progressed beyond this.
You might be overstating things a bit. The lion was already attacking everyone and had a good bite on a particular customer. That Tucows saved the rest of the customers and one had to be left behind seems both more accurate and forgivable. It's not like Tucows acted based on a *threat* from some punk spammer... they had been down hard for many hours, along with likely 200K of their users. What kind of sense does it make to keep all other sites offline if by taking down the target frees up the rest of the sites and simply places the target site in the same state it was already in (which would be, still down). I understand that Tucows worked with this customer to get them moved to a location which would cause less damage. If this is the case they [Tucows] both saved their customer base and dialed in the target customer. That is the kind of procedure I appreciate.
You might be overstating things a bit. The lion was already attacking everyone and had a good bite on a particular customer. That Tucows saved the rest of the customers and one had to be left behind seems both more accurate and forgivable. It's not like Tucows acted based on a *threat* from some punk spammer... they had been down hard for many hours, along with likely 200K of their users. What kind of sense does it make to keep all other sites offline if by taking down the target frees up the rest of the sites and simply places the target site in the same state it was already in (which would be, still down). I understand that Tucows worked with this customer to get them moved to a location which would cause less damage. If this is the case they [Tucows] both saved their customer base and dialed in the target customer. That is the kind of procedure I appreciate.
