GoDaddy Gives Downed Websites A Free Month Of Hosting

Klint Finley

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Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
GoDaddy

Following its lengthy outage on Monday, hosting provider GoDaddy today sent an e-mail to customers containing a mea culpa and a credit good for one month of free service for each “active/published” site the customer hosts with GoDaddy.

The e-mail also reiterated that the outage was due to internal network issues that corrupted DNS tables, and that no customer information was compromised.

Here’s the e-mail from GoDaddy a couple tipsters forwarded us:

GoDaddy customers: how do you feel about this offer?