GoDaddy is pushing Website Backup by jamming websites

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Santeri
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Unread post by Santeri » 2019-6-12 06:16

There is a very simple and effective way to take MySQL database backups using mysqldump. In most shared hosting services you can make database backups automatic by adding the following command to cron:

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nice -n 19 /usr/bin/mysqldump -h DBSERVERHOSTNAME DATABASENAME | nice -n 19 gzip > $HOME/db-backup.sql.gz
and the following configurations to your home directory to the file .my.cnf:

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[mysqldump]
user = YOURDBUSERNAMEHERE
password = YOURDBPASSWORDHERE
However, this does not work on GoDaddy thanks to GoDaddy promoting aggressively their Website Backup product. When they detect mysqldump, memory usage and I/O pikes causing faults and resulting in GoDaddy jamming arbitrarily web traffic by killing httpd processes. They also send to their victims a spam telling about reaching resource limits and encouraging them to purchase more expensive hosting services. You can check your resource limits from cPanel CPU and Concurrent Connection Usage.

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Dear GoDaddy, is sabotaging your customers really worth the 3 €/month extra you make by selling your useless Website Backup product?

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I don't think so. How about you?



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