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nnf | 1 year ago

I can't pass by this comment about Network Solutions without an enthusiastic second. Several times per month I help various customers with their domains, and when I see that one is with Network Solutions, I know I'm going to have to waste a bunch of time with their terrible DNS editor and will have to wait around for at least 20 minutes before their own editor reflects the changes I've made.

The worst part is that when replacing an A record with a CNAME, it lets you delete the A record but then blocks you from adding the CNAME, because "a record with that name already exists" (referring to the one that was just deleted). This is where the 20+ minute wait changes from "inconvenient" to "downtime". It's been like this for at least 15 years.

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datavirtue|1 year ago

You just brought back a fifteen year old memory. I have used a lot of hosting services but have always avoided GoDaddy. The name sounded too playful...and that was after being a Host Gator customer for years. They were decent back in the day and let me serve rediculous amounts of data from a shared hosting tier that always performed well...I was probably the noisy neighbor.