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No External Attacks Behind GoDaddy's Major Outage, Says Company

  • Sep 11, 2012 10:21 AM PDT
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By CircleID Reporter

GoDaddy.com has reported today that the Web hosting outage that involved thousands and possibly millions of websites on Monday was due to internal issues and did not involve any attacks by hackers. The outage lasted for about four hours and affected mainly small-business sites. GoDaddy.com hosts more than 5 million websites.

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