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

[Jan Dembowski]

Ha. Thanks. I think my confidence level would go up if that were a planned
"improvement" on their part...
On Sep 26, 2013 12:29 PM, "Patrick Nommensen" <patrick at nommensen.us> wrote:

> 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-**<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<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<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
>>
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