{"id":16697,"date":"2012-09-11T11:12:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T09:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16697"},"modified":"2012-09-11T11:12:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T09:12:35","slug":"godaddy-goes-down-the-cycle-is-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/09\/11\/godaddy-goes-down-the-cycle-is-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"GoDaddy goes down, the cycle is complete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back when I just started doing web things, there weren’t Web 2.0, cloud computing, or much of web services. \u00a0People used to do their own thing, and that’s exactly what I was doing too. \u00a0I had a home server that was my web, email, ftp, dns, file, and print server. \u00a0And maybe something else server as well. I just don’t remember anymore. \u00a0But gradually, companies started popping up left right and center, that made it easier to have your stuff somewhere else, somewhere other than your own server. \u00a0And one of the first things that I “gave away” were the domain names. \u00a0I tried a few companies back then and chose to go with GoDaddy<\/a>, because it was by far the cheapest I could find. \u00a0Then my web server was moved to a VPS hosting, which was cheaper and faster than my home server machine. \u00a0Then email went to Gmail<\/a>. \u00a0Then I got rid of printers at home. \u00a0Then I moved my pictures to Flickr<\/a>. \u00a0And then the rest of the files ended up on either Dropbox<\/a> or Evernote<\/a>. \u00a0The home server was long gone.<\/p>\n

In the last three or four years, I’ve been feeling the need to reverse that migration. \u00a0First, when my web hosting company got hacked and lost all the data (yeah, apparently they weren’t keeping backups either). \u00a0 Then with some migrations issues I had over Gmail, which just didn’t have all the tools I needed. \u00a0And now with GoDaddy going offline for a few hours yesterday, because of a DDOS attack against their servers.<\/p>\n

When considering such a move, one of the first thoughts is usually – do I really think that my own servers cannot be hacked or DDOSed? \u00a0Of course not. \u00a0They can, and probably will. \u00a0But there are two small things to remember here. \u00a0Firstly, I am a much smaller target than GoDaddy. And secondly, having control in your own hands is important. \u00a0Need backups? \u00a0Do them yourself. \u00a0Being hacked and need to move to another host urgently – you have everything you need to do so. \u00a0Something went down, it’s up to you to fix it.<\/p>\n

I’m not saying that I am moving everything back onto my home server yet. \u00a0But I am seriously considering getting some of that control back, and hosting it on my own server. \u00a0After the GoDaddy incident yesterday, I am most definitely setting up my own “DNS friends circle”. \u00a0And with disk space getting so much cheaper, I am seriously considering moving the emails and files back to my own server again. \u00a0Especially after I discovered that Flickr lost or corrupted some of the files that I’m storing over there.<\/p>\n

This whole thing of moving back and forward is nothing new though. \u00a0Progress often happens in spirals. \u00a0Think, for example, about the desktops. \u00a0Things started off as dumb terminals connected to a central mainframe computer. \u00a0Then then moved into standalone desktop computers. \u00a0Then terminal servers got popular again, with slightly less dumber terminal clients. \u00a0Then desktops and laptop again. \u00a0And now once again things move to the cloud, somewhere far away from the end user. \u00a0Who, in tern, moves to a smartphone or table, which is, arguably, \u00a0the next reincarnation of the desktop computer.<\/p>\n

Things go back and forward all the time. \u00a0So I’m thinking it’s time for me to get some of my things back. \u00a0Even if just for a while.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Back when I just started doing web things, there weren’t Web 2.0, cloud computing, or much of web services. \u00a0People used to do their own thing, and that’s exactly what I was doing too. \u00a0I had a home server that was my web, email, ftp, dns, file, and print server. \u00a0And maybe something else server … Continue reading GoDaddy goes down, the cycle is complete<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,133,62,1334],"tags":[2470,2289],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-sysadmin","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-godaddy","tag-web-hosting"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15228,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/28\/godaddy-is-being-sold-to-silver-lake\/","url_meta":{"origin":16697,"position":0},"title":"GoDaddy is being sold to Silver Lake","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 28, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"According to GigaOm: Go Daddy, the largest domain registrar and a web hosting provider, is reportedly close to being sold to a group of private equity firms including KKR and Silver Lake Partners. 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