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This necroing of this thread sh*t is getting to be an annual event //rolls eyes Ash on LET today:

According to Verisign there were 299 million active domain names registered globally at the end of Q3 2015 and they state GoDaddy accounts for about 20% of those registrations...20% of 299 is in the range of the 62 million domains under management that GoDaddy listed in its Q4 SEC filings. 

This is lovely: an entire /25 full of botnet controllers, phishing sites, malware, carding sites/forums, TeslaCrypt ransomware, and sites hosting Russian dating botnet spammers. https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/query/SBL290772 AKA OpenVirtuals featured on LEB today 

Going that route is inexpensive compared to other solutions, but is it really HA or is it something else that uses "HA" as a marketing term?   Availability definitions used by IBM: Some reading material for everyone: If you skip past the zSystems marketing fluff in this IBM white paper...

The 14 million figure came from the TechCrunch article I linked to: TechCrunch got the numbers from GoDaddy's latest 10-K filing with the SEC (i.e. their annual report for 2015) and rounded up slightly (GD listed 13.8 million in their latest filings and said its number of customers increased...

Currently available DCs: Phoenix, AZ and Ashburn, VA .  Coming soon: Singapore and Amsterdam OS choices ArchLinux, CentOS (6.7, 7.2), CoreOS, Debian (7,8), Fedora 23, FreeBSD 10.2, and Ubuntu 14.04 Obligatory bench.sh (Ashburn, VA location): Control Panel notes: Backups are automated...

GoDaddy has launched an hourly billing cloud platform targeted to developers to compete with AWS, DO, et al.  Pricing and plans are similar to Digital Ocean (20 GB, No more than $5.00 /month ($0.0074 /hour) ,512MB Memory, 1 CORE Processor, 20GB SSD Disk, 1TB Transfer).  KVM virtualization...

The U2250's were good little utility boxes for light tasks: DNS, monitoring, VPN, light development and testing.  (and they would probably be adequate for hosting the average website of all those WHT members who lose thousands of dollars every time their $10 annual VPS that they've never backed...

Interesting translations for "besti" Icelandic: besti=best (0.3 million Icelandic speakers) Hinglish: besti=shame, embarrassment (350 million Hinglish speakers) TL;DR do not use BestiHost unless you already signed a contract with Advania

The old one was a 5.99 euro VIA Nano U2250 w/ 2GB RAM and a 500GB HDD (or 160GB HDD if you have a 1.99  euro "Kidichere" version)

Online.net released their new Personal Range dedicateds today.  €20.00 setup fee again and: 1. €8.99 Dedibox SC Avoton C2350 (2 cores) 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD or 120GB SSD (replaces the 5.99 2GB RAM Nano U2250) 2.€15.99 Dedibox XC Avoton C2750 (8 cores) 16GB RAM, 1TB HDD or 250GB SSD (double...

Packages should be updated regularly.  Security updates should be done immediately. If you're using CentOS you can automate the process with yum-cron (tutorial: https://community.centminmod.com/threads/automatic-nightly-yum-updates-with-yum-cron.1507/ )

These are the results for a 2GB Public Cloud VPS-SSD 1 instance in Gravelines GRA1 (€2.99 monthly or €0.008 /hour)

Reports of more Idiot competitors using the Staminus database to spam Staminus customers: today's miscreant is a young lad who works as a respite caregiver by day and plays DC mogul by night.  Was it only two months ago that I was bitching about  this spam friendly provider  and blocked all SMTP...

Sex toys with Internet connectivity that can be controlled remotely have been around for at least 11 years when the first "net-controlled rumpy-pumpy" appeared. Data security and privacy issues are going to be a nightmare with all IOT products which will be  good for governments, good for...

If it's a company Intranet then you definitely need to offer your company's employees secure, encrypted, and authenticated services and internal sites...which means you use SSLs. Security on an Intranet is of extreme importance when you consider that on the typical Intranet critical company data...

From WHT: Staminus has reportedly been up and down all day and support is mostly MIA From the idiot competitor's file: AthenaLayer has spammed the hell out of the Staminus Facebook page today not to mention spamming a Reddit thread about the hack  FYI, AthenaLayer also owns the HF...

Posting a link to a LET thread about a breach of customer email addresses involving this clown (read the LET thread...clown is the only word to describe it) in case anyone is even thinking about ordering services from this "business" .   TL;DR After conducting a 10-second security review...

No, they just disclosed the minimum amount of info that they legally need to tell customers when there is a breach "your card info was compromised...here's what you should do to protect yourself...".   They don't need to explicitly tell the customers the data was unencrypted (but since many...