GoDaddy Powers Humane Society Telethon
Scottsdale, Arizona – (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) – October 24, 2006 – After an outage during its annual telethon threatened to prevent online donations, website hosting and domain registrar company, GoDaddy.com, assisted the Arizona Humane Society, with web hosting services, so that it could continue to maintain its place as the nation’s highest grossing pet telethon.
GoDaddy.com Founder and CEO Bob Parsons, along with his dog Max, were at the Arizona Humane Society’s telethon to match online donations, when a troubling glitch occurred. The society’s web site, which was hosted by an unnamed firm, crashed, rendering it unable to keep up with the spike in traffic spurred by Mr. Parsons’ offer, even though the staff had prepared for the surge.
During the telethon, Mr. Parsons and GoDaddy.com moved quickly and created an alternative web site address for telethon donations. The move was televised to viewers and the telethon’s Internet aspect ran smoothly for the rest of the fundraising drive. With help from GoDaddy.com, members of the community donated more than $117,000 in online donations, almost seven times the amount pledged last year. Parsons, on behalf of his company, donated $50,000 to the respected animal-welfare organization.
Cheryl Naumann, President and CEO of the Arizona Humane Society remarked, ”We agreed on the spot that we would transfer our Web hosting over to GoDaddy.com. Go Daddy’s quick response at the telethon saved our behinds. We’re the highest grossing pet telethon in the United States . Our Web site simply has to work. By switching to GoDaddy.com, we have the peace of mind that such an incident won’t happen again.”
Mr. Parsons added, ”Go Daddy’s web sites are up and running on big days and everyday, 24/7/365. The Arizona Humane Society will benefit from making the switch.”
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To learn more about the Arizona Humane Society, please visit: www.azhumane.org .
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