If you have followed me for any amount of time, you know that I don’t recommend very many companies. The same goes for “warnings” too, but I can’t let this one slide.

Do not, under any circumstances, do business with Anindya Banerjee of XWebz.com. I had outsourced to him since 2002. I have found him to be dishonest to me as well as to his team members and underpay contractors. This was a very disturbing find as I thought we had a great working relationship.

What makes matters worse is he doesn’t take responsibility for his actions, he just blames others. Don’t risk your business to someone like this. Avoid this person and his company. He is located in Kolkata, India.

After having Amazon.com go down on Friday with a “Service Unavailable” message, the same is occurring with MySpace.com today. I was informed of the outage by Jeff Greenfield from Product Placement.

According to Greenfield:

“A traceroute performed from different locations finds that the host is ‘unknown’. More interesting is that the domain record appears to have been updated earlier today. While the ip addresses appear to be working – nothing is connected to the domain.

“According to the domain lookup – the domain was was last updated on 8-Jun-2008 08:50:45 EDT.

“Unlike Amazon, where shoppers will return to purchase an item, MySpace having such a large outage will result in significant lost revenue.”

Amazon was hit with a “denial of service” bot attack. MySpace have their own DNS Servers and Greenfield pointed out that the DNS was last updated yesterday. I am wondering if it was just a simple misconfiguration. If so, I don’t think that person will have a job come Monday.

Greenfield also stated both domains are registered through Network Solutions and the issue could very well be a Network Solutions hack.