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by wethesheeple 5036 days ago
In other news, IP addresses are still working. ;)

So what can we conclude from this incident?

GoDaddy's registrar service GoDaddy's authoritative DNS service GoDaddy's hosting service GoDaddy SSL certificates etc.

They are all different services. When you link them all together and give GoDaddy control over your entire setup, if there's a problem with any one service, you can't recover as easily as if they were each handled independently. meme: "Do one thing well."

"All-in-one" solutions, though they might provide convenience, might come at a cost in terms of disaster recovery. meme: SPOF

I wonder if this thinking might also apply to software: using a single, large "all-in-one" program versus using lots of smaller, independent (and replaceable) programs.