Recently, I encountered an issue with an app I maintain—it suddenly stopped pulling RSS feeds from TechCrunch. At first, I suspected that the RSS feed URL might have changed. However, after further investigation, I discovered a different story. The URL itself was unchanged, but the results varied depending on where the request was coming from.To troubleshoot, I started by setting up a local web server and running a test with my script to see if it could still pull the RSS feed. The script, written in PHP, simply sends a cURL request to the TechCrunch RSS feed.<?phpfunction get($url, $...

GaDaddy is a famous web hosting platform where many people put their websites on its platform. If one has low budget and wanna a shared hosting, you can buy the service at GoDaddy and share some hosting resource with others. In such cases, there would be resource limit based on different plans.In this post, we will discuss one scenario which caused our application down caused by database usage on shared hosting plan and hope it helps readers who encounter similar issues.The issue we encountered is that our privileged users associated with the database we created get removed all of a sudden and...

According to PHPMailer troubleshooting guide, GoDaddy has a very strict rule on sending email using PHPMailer.Popular US hosting provider GoDaddy imposes very strict (to the point of becoming almost useless) constraints on sending an email. They block outbound SMTP to ports 25, 465 and 587 to all servers except their own. This problem is the subject of many frustrating questions on Stack Overflow. If you find your script works on your local machine, but not when you upload it to GoDaddy, this will be what's happening to you. The solution is extremely poorly documented by GoDaddy: you ...

Even though it recanted (somewhat unconvincingly) its support of the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), domain registrar GoDaddy continues to lose thousands of domains as an online campaign to punish GoDaddy is proving highly effective.The boycott campaign began on reddit on December 22. A day later GoDaddy announced its withdrawal of support for the House legislation it actually helped craft.And still GoDaddy has lost more than 70,000 domains in less than a week, with the prospect of more if the reddit-inspired day of boycott set for December 29 goes off as planned.GoDaddy goes from...