[wp-forums] FYI: Stupid new GoDaddy server rule

[Patrick Nommensen]

GoDaddy has told me : "There's an issue beyond that/causing that. We're 
looking into it." Hmm.

> Otto <mailto:otto at ottodestruct.com>
> Thursday, September 26, 2013 8:56 AM
>
> I left GoDaddy hosting when they started blocking some of my posts
> from being served. It was accidental, but on a level of stupid that I
> had not seen before.
>
> Essentially, they put in some filtering mechanism that instantly
> dropped any connection which sent or received this character sequence:
> "eval(base64_decode". This applied to every form of IP connection,
> near as I can tell. FTP, web, ssh, everything. So my posts with
> samples of (nerfed) bad code got blocked too.
>
> Note that sending "eval (base64_decode" worked fine. They have a funny
> definition of "security" over there.
>
> -Otto
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> Jan Dembowski <mailto:jan at dembowski.net>
> Thursday, September 26, 2013 8:50 AM
> I've reached out via email to that GoDaddy account but I'm not holding my
> breath. I have a feeling that someone at that hosting company said "Yeah!
> That's a great idea! Let's do that!"
>
> I mean, that would sound better than *"What's that button do? I'm sure it
> will be fiiiinnneee."...*
>
>
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> esmi at quirm dot net <mailto:esmi at quirm.net>
> Thursday, September 26, 2013 8:35 AM
>
>
> I've been doing the same trawling exercise. No luck so far.
>
> I did come across a reference that they did not announce the Apache 
> 2.4 upgrade (apparently it also caused havoc with sites using ssi). So 
> I'm not holding out much hope of any official documentation of any 
> restriction on absolute urls or requests.
>
> Mel
> Jan Dembowski <mailto:jan at dembowski.net>
> Thursday, September 26, 2013 7:42 AM
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:13 AM, esmi at quirm dot net wrote:
>
>> <http://wordpress.org/support/**topic/godaddy-is-real-bad-**
>> company-and-there-blaming-wp-**for-it<http://wordpress.org/support/topic/godaddy-is-real-bad-company-and-there-blaming-wp-for-it>
>> tl:dr: It's been reported that GD have a new server rule - an IP address
>> is allowed only 5 requests per minute. If the address exceeds this limit,
>> the IP will be blocked for 2 - 4 minutes.
>>
>>
> That's a great move on their part. I wonder if you have to pay extra for
> actual hosting...?
>
>
>> Atm, I'm confirming that the site is hosted with GD, then pointing people
>> to the topic above and suggesting they contact GD about it as a first
>> resort.
>>
>
> I'm navigating the GoDaddy site trying to find if that's documented
> anywhere. No luck so far, anyone know where to find their SLA statement for
> customers?
>
> Jan Dembowski
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> esmi at quirm dot net <mailto:esmi at quirm.net>
> Thursday, September 26, 2013 7:13 AM
> <http://wordpress.org/support/topic/godaddy-is-real-bad-company-and-there-blaming-wp-for-it> 
>
>
> tl:dr: It's been reported that GD have a new server rule - an IP 
> address is allowed only 5 requests per minute. If the address exceeds 
> this limit, the IP will be blocked for 2 - 4 minutes.
>
> Oh wonderful! :-/
>
> This explains the "ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE", "No data" and "can't establish 
> a connection to the server at" issues we've started seeing from GD 
> customers over the past few days.
>
> Atm, I'm confirming that the site is hosted with GD, then pointing 
> people to the topic above and suggesting they contact GD about it as a 
> first resort.
>
> Mel