Comments on: Yet Another Reason Not to Use GoDaddy

By: Tyler Pettis

Tyler Pettis — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:07:46 +0000

Thanks for the update. I’ll check out your link for hosting services http://vpslink.com/?ref=D2NF81

By: Tyler Pettis

Tyler Pettis — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:48:59 +0000

Thanks Brian! I have recently been looking into starting a clickbank, adsense, etc. account. I have bought domains from GoDaddy in the past but never hosted with them. You just saved me from trying their hosting services. Thank You!

By: Misanthropist

Misanthropist — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 07:28:32 +0000

The other problem is that to my knowledge godaddy doesnt have cPanel access or SSH root access? Or am I expecting too much with a shared hosting package and these are available only on dedicated hosting? But I remember seeing something like a cPanel when using hostgator.

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:43:21 +0000

I’m not sure what the problem you had was, but this is from their help center.

http://help.godaddy.com/article/4764

Proxy servers are not required for outbound shared hosting connections as of September 10, 2008. Although it will continue to function after this date, we recommend code utilizing proxy servers be updated to reflect this change.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:41:29 +0000

@John Conde: That's what I said, they provide a proxy to use, but it's not HTTPS between you and them, we know nothing about their proxy implementation, and it's a single point of security failure.

By: John Conde

John Conde — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 23:35:36 +0000

You can connect to outside servers with their shared hosting. You just have to use their proxy server to do it: http://proxy.shr.secureserver.net:3128

If you’re using cURL with PHP this code should do it:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPPROXYTUNNEL, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYTYPE, CURLPROXY_HTTP);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, ‘http://proxy.shr.secureserver.net:3128‘);

By: Gaby

Gaby — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:49:47 +0000

I’ve never liked GoDaddy (website feels horribly cluttered) but I too find it unacceptable for them to encourage such insecure practices. I’m going to tweet about this both my twitter accounts and hope I reach at least a few people.

Thanks for bringing this up.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:08:01 +0000

@Cap’n Refsmmat: Do you have a standard hosting account, or some kind of special add-on. I find this unacceptable for any level of hosting, since it encourages an insecure practice.

By: Cap'n Refsmmat

Cap'n Refsmmat — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:25:24 +0000

I actually just finished work on an Authorize.net integrated site that’s (not my decision) hosted by GoDaddy. I didn’t have to do any crazy stuff to make it work, either — it Just Worked with the URL Authorize.net gave me.

Mind you, I’m on one of their Windows hosting packages. Perhaps they only restrict their Linux packages; I dunno.