Comments on: Why GoDaddy can’t get it right, and why you should not use their Grid Hosting

By: randy

randy — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 02:37:12 +0000

i am also struggling right now with Paypal IPN related issues on a site that is hosted on Godaddy. And I’m seeing some 302 messages. i will probably revisit this article a bit later but for now thanks for putting this info out there.

By: Carey Blier

Carey Blier — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:43:40 +0000

Many thanks for yet one more helpful put up – a perfect deal appreciated. If I could +1 rep you I would, lol.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:33:51 +0000

Website payment standards is not really the problem because you can initiate the response. It’s IPN wherein the problem lay. The notification tries to send data to a URL, but GoDaddy do their little redirect magic and causes the IPN to fail (as it will not follow the redirect).

It is also possible that GoDaddy has ameliorated the problem by now if you are indeed using IPN with the handler hosted on a GoDaddy Grid Hosting server.

By: Derreck

Derreck — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:42:29 +0000

Our website use service of PayPal’s Website Payments Standard without any problem. We have Grid Hosting with dedicated ip address.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:03:37 +0000

Peter,
Something you may also not have realized was that this 302 redirection REALLY messes up organic rankings. I know, because I’m periodically losing my rankings for select pages because the google bot seems to spit back robots.txt errors whenever godaddy does the 302 to query string to 301 method (whatever the heck it is). It’s DEMOLISHING my rankings and Godaddy has been clueless – they keep telling me it’s an issue with ME.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:26:18 +0000

Unfortunately, the best solution is to go with someone else. They refuse to do things differently.

You could host your IPN handler on another server that does not do the 301 forwarding — that would be a reasonable workaround as you’d get the scalability for your site. IPN is not likely to cause much of a load, but you run into connectivity issues. Still, it’s a viable option that I have considered.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:02:50 +0000

Hi,

I just came across your site because I’m having similar problems with go daddy’s grid hosting and implementing paypal ipn.

have you came across any solution? any help would be appreciated!