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I recently moved nameservers for our domain from Network Solutions to GoDaddy. Unfortunately yesterday GoDaddy experienced what may have been a DDoS attack, with it taking down our websites and email for most of the business day. A lot of orders come through our website and email so needless to say, we can't afford for this to happen again.
Today, I contacted Verisign and Neustar who both claim 100% uptime and the ability to thwart DDoS attacks. For this level of service, they charge $200-$300 per month versus about $10 per month I was paying with NetSol and GoDaddy.
Of course the extra cost is worth our business being up all the time. But is the claim of 100% uptime realistic? Am I just as safe with any domain hosting service? Should I just stay put and expect to have my domain host go offline and lose a day or two of business each year?
Your experiences and opinions are appreciated!
I recently moved nameservers for our domain from Network Solutions to GoDaddy. Unfortunately yesterday GoDaddy experienced what may have been a DDoS attack, with it taking down our websites and email for most of the business day. A lot of orders come through our website and email so needless to say, we can't afford for this to happen again.
Today, I contacted Verisign and Neustar who both claim 100% uptime and the ability to thwart DDoS attacks. For this level of service, they charge $200-$300 per month versus about $10 per month I was paying with NetSol and GoDaddy.
Of course the extra cost is worth our business being up all the time. But is the claim of 100% uptime realistic? Am I just as safe with any domain hosting service? Should I just stay put and expect to have my domain host go offline and lose a day or two of business each year?
Your experiences and opinions are appreciated!
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Thank you both! Based on your feedback, I decided to go with multiple hosts - one registrar and two DNS hosts. I like to think the likelihood of any two of the three being unavailable at any one time is far less a possibility than when I had all eggs in one basket with one host who was also the registrar. It turns out those hosts who allow zone transfers are also those who are less expensive so this solution may cost me $30 per month - 3X what I was paying - yet far less than $200 per month with no real guarantee of more redundancy and reliability.
http://serverfault.com/questions/316637/100-uptime-for-a-web-application