It’s 7:00am here in Greenwood, SC and Namepros.com is down once again this morning. This entire problem has gone from bad to worse. Yesterday the site was miserably slow due to hackers, the day before it was a hard drive failure. This morning the website is completely unreachable.

The server is hosted at Softlayer.com. Is this not a managed server? Are they not running raid 5 or 10? Did someone miss the load-balancing memo? Does SoftLayer not have firewalls? If it were me, I’d move the entire operation to Steadfast Networks. I’m confident their reliable technical staff could keep the website running for more than a few hours at a time. Gee-whiz.

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Latest update 1/21/2010: The popular domaining website Namepros.com is down from my location in Greenwood, SC.  If you have any information regarding the most recent Namepros outage, please post it in the comment section of this article.

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Tonight, I finally decided to give Godaddy’s hosting another chance (I know, I’m a bonehead)  and test their new Grid hosting plan. That was not a very good idea. The initial configuration went smooth, but when I attempted to add another domain, a message appeared stating that economy accounts can point to root only.  This is not an economy account! Well I called the support line and after 30 minutes on hold was told that I would need to write a special script to get around this issue. The support guy (refused to give name when asked) suggested I look into Apache mod-rewrite!

The Godaddy website clearly states that Grid hosting supports unlimited domains and nowhere does it mention that they all must point to the same directory. There were several other issues regarding security ( I can browse the entire server using SSH FTP) and self-spawning directory aliases, but I’m in no mood to write an essay on everything that went wrong. It would take too long.

My advice, wait until this service gets into ‘Alpha’ before wasting your money. Strike that. My advice, run for the hills as fast as you can, far away from any of Godaddy’s hosting offerings before you fall victim to the bugfest.

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Namepros.com is now down from my location in Greenwood, SC.

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It was distressing to hear the news come over the TwitterFox wire that Steve Jobs has taken a medical leave of Absence from Apple until July.  Apparently his health, the specifics of which are closely guarded, has taken a turn. Here’s hoping that Steve makes a full and speedy recovery.

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