The Post Office website downtime uncovered serious problems

I suppose all of you know who supports SAPO as far as IT goes?
And you are all talking about fellow "IT" experts?
And your own network DNS setups are perfect?
And all of you regularly check your own networks, domains and websites using professional tools available?
And you correct errors etc that are identified by those tools showing especially by those that violate RFC recommendations and regulations?

Care to post a few domains and websites for us to run through a few evaluation tools so that we can post the results and compare them with those of SAPO?
 
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I'm surprised the dodgy folk at Gridhost never grabbed the domain and sold it off to the highest bidder. They are renowned for that
 
Geoff.D said:
I suppose all of you know who supports SAPO as far as IT goes?
And you are all talking about fellow "IT" experts?
And your own network DNS setups are perfect?
And all of you regularly check your own networks, domains and websites using professional tools available?
And you correct errors etc that are identified by those tools showing especially by those that violate RFC recommendations and regulations?

Care to post a few domains and websites for us to run through a few evaluation tools so that we can post the results and compare them with those of SAPO?
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The website isn't the issue for me. It's the mismanagement that would let the renewal lapse. Mismanagement that's present in every area of the organisation. It was only a matter of time before something really big happened. The new guy also doesn't seem to be able to turn it around so I guess we'll see SAA 2.0.
 
Geoff.D said:
I suppose all of you know who supports SAPO as far as IT goes?
And you are all talking about fellow "IT" experts?
And your own network DNS setups are perfect?
And all of you regularly check your own networks, domains and websites using professional tools available?
And you correct errors etc that are identified by those tools showing especially by those that violate RFC recommendations and regulations?
Click to expand...

I setup automated alerts for things going down (canary), my domain is auto-renewed by AWS and my actual DNS is managed using Route53 and validated with scripts... (Because AWS allows you to script it using AWS CLI). I haven't gone so far as to validate my DNS using a canary but no reason I couldn't.

And that is just for my personal domain, took about 5 hours to setup with no experience in DNS or domains. Haven't touched it since then.

Used the same scripts for a web-site my Mom wanted for her business, once she closed the business and the credit card was cancelled my automated alerts notified me as soon as it started failing (due to AWS stopping everything for lack of payment).

Automation ftw.

Also lack of automation is the no.1 fail of most hired developers IMO.
Automate it once and just copy paste for 99% of clients instead of this manual clicky-clicky crap.

My 2c.
 
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