I had 3 calls today from people who had purchased hosting on godaddy servers, and I had to tell them that I would not be able to help them with their current hosting. This distresses me - because I like to help people - so the best I can do is tell people to go to the zen cart forum and search for godaddy problems or godaddy hosting and they would be able to see why I just refuse to work on zen carts hosted at godaddy or one of their subsidiaries. I am a firm believer in trying to save people heartache as well as money - so this is the stance I have taken over the course of all the years that...

News from the zen cart developers regarding extra folders just released today as follows: In a standard Zen Cart install, there are a few additional folders provided which DO NOT need to be uploaded to your live webserver. In fact, leaving those folders on your server can pose some security risks if not used as intended. While most of the risks are minor in that attempting to access some of those files/scripts/documentation could reveal some information about your server which might allow more sophisticated hack "probing" to occur, there are some more significant risks including unauthorized...

The Zen Cart Development Team has announced that those hosting companies who have upgraded to the latest PHP version 5.3 that came out a few months ago will be having problems with the zen cart websites hosted there. You can find the complete details and a patch on the zen cart site at: http://www.zen-cart.com/forum/showthread.php?t=140960