For at least a week, GoDaddy domain forwarding has been slow and broken. My sites will either never come up or you’ll wait about 10 seconds, get an error then the site appears.
After speaking with GoDaddy technical support, their senior engineers (I forget what they’re actually called) acknowledged the issue. They had me run 3 separate trace routes from three different carriers, Cogent, Comcast and Verizon. They said all three were certainly following incorrect paths.
Is this an issue with GoDaddy or routing issues? Is it isolated to the North East? Either way, we just moved our companies website to a new domain and we needed forwarding to work.
I have an IIS7 server I use for various admin and doc sharing purposes. The company hosting our website, like most web hosts, uses host names, I had to configure a forward or CNAME for it to work. I performed the following:
- Added the website http://www.oldyadayada.com to IIS
- Added HTTP redirection to http://www.newyadayada.com
- On GoDaddy, configured an @ host and www cname that directs visitors to my web server IP address
Forwarding is pretty basic stuff, right? How is this so broken GoDaddy?
Update 10/28/15 – Looks like it back to normal.