I am sure your customer really appreciates you exploiting their unfortunate outage. This is really what I look for in a company that I depend on when my day is already going terrible.
I second this - I'm a customer of a company that runs on DNSimple; having a status page doesn't help the fact that I can't access my service. There's also @DNSimple for status updates
> Luckily for DNSimple, they were smart enough to run their status page off of their own infrastructure
That wording... is it me, or does that not mean what they think it means?
I read that as "they were smart enough to run their status page on their own infrastructure" because of colloquial uses of the phrase "off of" (eg he jumped off of the dock).
I see what you mean, but I took it to mean that they ran it "separate from" their own infrastructure, so as it to isolate it from problems affecting their main infrastructure and DNS.
Offtopic but I'm curious - how do you parse "he jumped off of the dock"? To me that would say he was on the dock and jumped off it (into water or whatever), so equivalent to "he jumped off the dock".
I would parse it as "on" in a sentence like "he based his site off of facebook".
You can do that anyway - just delegate the status subdomain as a new zone
> we're unable to add subdomains for existing customers of Fastly
Seems like a bad choice of CDN provider...
> your precious SPF slots
'slots'? You just add another `include` section - there is no number of slots. And even if there was, you don't want email being addressed from a fake looking domain.
The benefits of having a dedicated domain are far and few between. Particularly the reasons listed here are poor ones. It is far more beneficial to use a single trusted domain than to create a confusing mix of domains which look possibly fake.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 49.5 ms ] threadThat wording... is it me, or does that not mean what they think it means?
I read that as "they were smart enough to run their status page on their own infrastructure" because of colloquial uses of the phrase "off of" (eg he jumped off of the dock).
I would parse it as "on" in a sentence like "he based his site off of facebook".
You can do that anyway - just delegate the status subdomain as a new zone
> we're unable to add subdomains for existing customers of Fastly
Seems like a bad choice of CDN provider...
> your precious SPF slots
'slots'? You just add another `include` section - there is no number of slots. And even if there was, you don't want email being addressed from a fake looking domain.
The benefits of having a dedicated domain are far and few between. Particularly the reasons listed here are poor ones. It is far more beneficial to use a single trusted domain than to create a confusing mix of domains which look possibly fake.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4408.txt
How about fixing your own shit before pointing fingers at others?