Go Daddy!

WHAT IS GO DADDY?
go daddy down
Yesterday, Go Daddy was attacked, and causing many websites to be down for several hours.
We were getting calls all day, with clients thinking there was an issue with their Internet.
Therefore we replaced today’s article with this one instead.

What is Go Daddy?

go daddy
GO DADDY is a company which provides a complete suite of products for companies to conduct business online. This includes:
– Domains
– Hosting
– Web design
– Email
– Security
Websites 101:
domain names

DOMAINS are the actual name of the web address- such as “avenuemcomputers.com”. Click here and type in any name to see if the website is available! If you want, you can choose if you want your site to end in “.com”, “.info”, .”net”, “.org” and many more.

hosting

HOSTING is where the actual site code is stored. We, at Avenue M Computers, store our website using Go Daddy. We strongly advise having a local backup of your site, just in case Go Daddy ever looses your information, you will have a backup copy of your work.

web design

WEB DESIGN is as it sounds: the ability to design your own websites by providing templates, and a site builder so that you can build your own website. However, hiring a professional provides you with the ability to have a fully customized site, with all your particular needs without requiring any programming knowledge. For a professional site, fully SEO optimized and a competitive price, please call 718-676-6910 or email us at help@avenuemcomputers.com for more information.

email EMAIL is the ability to create email addresses using your domain name, such as joe@avenuemcomputers.com as opposed to joe@gmail.com.

ssl

SECURITY is creating the ability to have a secure website or webpage. This is crucial if your website is collecting personal information or processing payments, since your clients would want the information they are entering to be processed into a secure webpage.

Why use Go Daddy?
The cost of purchasing and maintaining a server is generally too costly for many small businesses, therefore paying a hosting company monthly/yearly is generally the cost effective solution for many clients.

Is there any competition?
Absolutely! Some of our clients are quite happy with other hosting companies, such as 1and1.com.

Want to find out who owns a particular website?
Click HERE to find out!

What happened yesterday?
DOS attack
Yesterday, Go Daddy servers went down. The servers (supposedly) went down due to a Denial of Service attack. What that means is that someone sent multiple bogus requests to the servers in order to flood the servers with requests causing the server to get bogged down due to the overload. You might ask, “Can the server differentiate between a legitimate and bogus request?” The answer is YES. However, by the time the server moves on to the next request, it is overworked due to the vast amount of requests. In addition some bogus requests are able to masquerade as real requests. There are tools that attempt to detect this so the opposite can happen as well, meaning that many legitimate requests can cause the server to think its being attacked and deny responses to those requests.

Did you know?
private You can hide your identity, so that no one knows that you are the owner of a particular website?
Click HERE and for $9.99/year you can make your domain private, so that the WHOIS domain checker will not reveal any information.

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