StuBee

Looks like the issue has now been resolved (fingers crossed). I found an ambassador godaddy email address, and 1 day after that the network issue was fixed.

I can now see that the network path through the first securenet servers (godaddy) take a different route and do not hit the one that was causing the issues.

Secondly I was facing a Windows LiveWriter posting issue. Apparently Godaddy blocked xmlrpc (which WLW uses). There is a workaround of renaming that php file and altering the setup of WLW to refrence it.

I had two Godaddy issues. A network one, and this xmlrpc one. Finally they fixed the network one, and I just found the workaroudn for the xmlrpc block.

Rename the xmlrpc.php file on your wordpress install. THen change your windows livewriter to refrence that new filename during the blog setup.

Works !

As stated I can’t get into my website long enough to do anything…let alone export. So I’m not looking for other host suggestions.

I’m wondering if anyone else has techniques for making Godaddy support see the light of day…..or notice something wrong with the site that causes it to become blocked.

I’m in the same situation. I’ve called GoDaddy 3 times, and they fall back on either: a) our server has issues and is being worked on, b) it’s your ISP, c) upgrade to cpanel blah blah.

In reality what is happening is that if I hit a blog hosted on that godaddy server and keep refreshing (non-cache) it will stop pinging. A traceroute will show the stop is at their first secureserver.net server.

My guess it’s something like a loadbalancer problem. the tracert stops way before the actual endhost.

This has been going on for at least 2 days.