Computer users are not normally technically adept: to them their computer is just a thing they use to get work done or for entertainment, and they treat it like a radio, television, or coffee maker. This naivety makes businesses an easy target for sociopaths looking for fun and profit. These criminals exist because of other people’s laziness. Please don’t be the next business that rewards and encourages these sociopaths by providing them with more easy profit.
Tag: DNS
Protecting Your Web Site from Loss of Business
The Godaddy DNS outage was caused by internal error, not a hack. We should specify name lookup via more than one DNS company so that if one company is unavailable, the other will still work and access to our web sites will be unaffected by a single point failure.
GMail for Non-Google Domains
You can have GMail handle your email even if Google is not hosting your web site. See this document for detailed instructions to fit MX Records on GoDaddy.com DNS here: http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=33353&topic=1611273&ctx=topic. There are like instruction sheets for many other registrars here http://support.google.com/a/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=1611273. There was also a *VERY* handy tool that looked up the current, working,…