I've seen this file in accounts before, and as the GoDaddy representative relayed, it can just be deleted without any consequences. Most 4GH accounts end up getting migrated to different server configurations depending on usage (as an upgrade), so they likely use this script for gauging that as well. By taking a look at the page size returned by this script, their IT department (and you as well), can see what node a site is being served on. The hitnodes.php script for Linux (and hitnodes.aspx for Windows) is aptly named, since it's used by their hosting department to see if sites are reachable (i.e., can be "hit") on these nodes. In this system configuration, each account can be accessed via a 4 different nodes on a grid hosting system (hence the abbreviation 4GH), allowing for redundancy and performance increases via load balancing over standard hosting. One server shuts down, only a fraction of the total resources are This networked system helpsĪchieve a high reliability-beyond 99.9%-for your website because if
Web Hosting "pools" the resources of many servers and your site'sĬontent resides on multiple servers.
4GH was GoDaddy's precursor to cloud hosting, as can be read about here:
This is a file used by GoDaddy's hosting department to periodically test if accounts on their Fourth-Generation Hosting (4GH) systems are reachable. str_repeat('.', $node - strlen($response))
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Here's the code reproduced for your scrutiny: Padding: " If it was just to check if a node was having problems, why not say "Oh, that was so we could quickly see if the server was having problems."? Not exactly state secrets. I didn't really follow what the author of that blog was talking about, and I was hoping that someone here might have a good explanation for the purpose of this script and how it works, and maybe some idea of why the GoDaddy representative was being so cagey about it. So half out of concern that this could be part of some exploit that he didn't want to spook me about, and half out of pure curiosity, I've been trying to find out what this script is for, but the most I could turn up was this page talking about a method to quickly check for errors on a 4GH or Grid system. When I pressed him as to why there was a file in our site that he couldn't tell us about, he just said it had to do with server maintenance and he couldn't tell me anything else about it. The guy I talked to just said "oh, I'll delete that", and when I asked what it was, he said that he wasn't allowed to tell me (!), and that he had just deleted it. I was pretty sure we didn't put it there, which lead me to believe it was from GoDaddy, so I called their support to see if they knew what it was. It was only 16 lines long, and the code seemed innocuous, and just printed out the hostname of the server we're on and a bunch of dots. I was tidying up the html folder today and noticed a file called hitnodes.php which I hadn't noticed before. We may reintroduce a forum with modern features in the future, but our current focus and priority is on product updates and other content.At my company, our website is hosted with GoDaddy's shared hosting service. Our support helpdesk has always been the best way to get official help if it is needed, and nowadays we also produce tutorials on our blog and make use of sites such as Twitter and YouTube, so the role of the forum had fallen away.Ī further decisive factor was that it used PHPBB2, a flawed PHP 4 codebase that for security reasons we had isolated to its own server and modified to work with newer generations of PHP, but despite being made more secure and spam resistant with custom changes, this was still something that really should not be used.
The forum was used mostly for product release announcements and received only occasional posts for community assistance, which with our emphasis on QA, thorough documentation and designing for ease of use, was always the aim. Started long before we launched a blog and Twitter existed, our ancient PHPBB2 based community supported forum has finally been retired.
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