Hostgator’s Over Quota Handling

After a while debugging WordPress, I discovered something: when you’re out of quota on a subdomain of a site hosted on Hostgator, it doesn’t return a failure code when you upload a file via FTP.

No, it returns success, and creates a size 0 file. I didn’t have the WordPress Blank Screen of Death at all– I simply had a very accurate display of a 0-byte file.

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http://gclarke.livejournal.com geoff

Silent errors are my favorite kind! Hrmm, well, maybe except for that license key error gordon found that told him what the key should have been. That was pretty good…
http://www.independentcreator.com Matt

Invalid password: “password1″. Expected: “happiness”. Please try again, this time entering the password “happiness”.
http://gclarke.livejournal.com geoff

waitaminute… how do you know my password?!?!?

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Hostgator’s Over Quota Handling