Oct 10 16:11 2017, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Markus Reschke:
MvdV> A company providing a paid service can not discontinue the service MvdV> at whim overnight. That would be a breach of contract. Of course
Most people would expect that, but it depends on the contract. If there's a "we may shut down the service at any time and will refund you" clause, the service provider wouldn't breach the contract. In some jurisdictions you might have consumer protection laws making such a clause moot. Though, the protection laws might not apply, because the provider is in another country. It's a crazy world ;)
MvdV> they can go bankrupt, but that does not happen all that often. A MvdV> free service provided by an individual sysop can evaporate just MvdV> like that. I have seen it happen with fidosoft.de.
Kidnapped by aliens. Shit happens :)
MR>> And it's a good idea to have at least two DynDNS services, in case MR>> one of them has an outage or being DDoSed.
MvdV> It depends on how reliable the service must be. If one needs the MvdV> service for one's bussines, it would certainly be wise to have MvdV> redundancy. If it is just for Fidonet... it is not the end of the MvdV> world if a node is occasionally down for a couple of hours. I have MvdV> an account with eurodns.com for over a decade now and they have MvdV> never been down, Not that I have noticed anyway.
Regarding networking I might overdo thing a little bit :) Anyhow, I know of several DDoS incidents where the victim was a DynDNS service and the DDoS didn't last just a few hours.
