What do you think of the Go Daddy Web Outage? Is it one in too Many. Meanwhile here is an interesting article analysing the situation. We think Go daddy is still among the best out there. Only a few web hosting servicing companies will shake the internet like Go daddy did when they went off and trust me, many of them do go off. We have experienced web outages on some of our sites without it getting any major web attention. You have the be among the best for people to worry about you, also 45 million domain names is no child's play.
Earlier this week, GoDaddy, a large web hosting company managing more than 45 million domain names, was out of service for about 4.5 hours.
Certainly, we all know that this is very bad. It caused many other companies to be unavailable, many transactions not to be processed, and many frustrated users. But really, how bad was this outage?
According to a recent Emerson Network Power study, website outages and other application performance issues cost companies an average of $5,600 per minute. For GoDaddy, this translates into $1,500,000 of business lost. This is a conservative estimate, since we don’t know how long it took for all services to be back and how many transactions these services provided.
The causes of the events are multiple: officials at Godaddy say that the issue came from internal network issues, while hacker group “Anonymous” claims to have caused the outage because of the company’s support of SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act). Whether the outages came from “Anonymous” or from internal issues at the Scottsdale, Ariz., company, the company’s IT department is experiencing too many outages.
As we become more and more reliant on technology, it’s important that technology does not fail us even for just one minute. Back around the end of June, it was Amazon’s cloud services (AWS) to go down for the second time in that month. This outage caused Netflix, Instagram, Pinterest and Heroku to be out of service. If you are asking yourself, “How bad is this?” just think about the fact that Netflix commands 20 percent of all internet traffic in the U.S. The cost for this outage is north of hundreds of millions.
Another example of an unacceptable technology malfunction happened back in May during one of the most anticipated and talked about IPO in our lifetime: Facebook’s IPO. The event ended up being a technological flop as Nasdaq chief executive admitted that there was a computer glitch (outage) during the first hours, preventing tens of millions dollars from being traded. Traders were unable to make changes or cancel their trades.
Last but not least in the series of unacceptable outages is Twitter. Their site is down or very slow every other month. It’s so bad that they even have a wiki page that talks about every major outage they’ve had since 2008. And, yes it is true that the online social networking and microblogging site processes over 300 million tweets per day, but it’s not an excuse for them to provide their users with poorly performing service or no service at all.
As we rely more and more on technology, we expect technology to be seamless, to work with and for us, to allow us to be more productive and cost effective. It would be ideal if technology never failed, but that is too much to ask because nothing is really ever perfect—things break.
That said, technology leaders need to work harder to provide technology that almost never fails. Nobody wants to wake up one day and not be able to access Google search or their online bank account...[allmediany]
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