[wp-forums] GoDaddy Issues

[Otto]

On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Siobhan Bamber <siobhanbamber at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> This past week or so there's been a few people on the forums using GoDaddy
> for their hosting who have reported the following error message:
> "ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE."
>
> This seems to be an issue on GoDaddy's end, but if anyone has any thoughts
> on how to resolve this problem for WP users, please post here:
> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-with-wordpress-going-unresponsive

Saw this on some other forums too, including one guy who had it
happening with a static HTML site. Sounds like some new security
configuration on their shared hosting. GoDaddy has a great tendency to
implement ridiculous security that causes problems for edge cases.
They did it to me once, which is why I am now using DreamHost instead.

Technical detail: They once blocked anything that contained
"eval(base64_decode"... at the IP stack level. This block happened to
include my posts that talked about that sort of thing. It also
included FTP, as I found out when trying to transfer a test file.

Bottom line is that nobody can fix the problem but GoDaddy. I would
suggest that moving to a better hosting service would be the long term
solution.

-Otto