Zeaun Dot Com

In case you haven’t read my postings on the various webmaster forums, a large part of my online income is made through ’s outstanding Partner Program. Well imagine my dismay this past week when Ebay banned GoDaddy’s IP range from accessing the partner feeds and API. After giving GoDaddy a day to mend fences with Ebay, and numerous calls with my hosting counselor (when you own a certain number of sites and a certain number of accounts GoDaddy gives you a real person to talk to, and not just a kid with a script and a phone) I moved several sites to Hostgator. Even though Hostgator offered to move my sites for me I refused for a couple of reasons:

1- I still have other sites that I left on the GoDaddy accounts where these were moved from, and I don’t trust giving access, even for a day or two, to folks I don’t know.

2- I had already lost 2.5 days of revenue and didn’t want to wait for the Hostgator guys to figure do my job for me.

So I spent several hours exporting and importing databases, and executing FTP transfers.

The end result? Those pages now load faster than ever and my visitors rewarded me on the first day back online with my best numbers yet. I guess I really was losing lots of customers due to GoDaddy’s slow loading times (the sites in question had to make API calls to Ebay each time the pages loaded).

Of course I can’t be too harsh on GoDaddy. After all it was Ebay that banned them in the first place, and my contact on the GoDaddy side did inform me that the ban was due to the actions of a soon-to-be-former GoDaddy employee, and not due to the practices of the company itself.

But funk dat. I want to vent anyway.

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