PCI Compliance problem with GoDaddy

I've been a fan of GoDaddy for a long time, until today. If you have a shopping cart with someone else and host with GoDaddy you may encounter problems with PCI compliance testing by SecurityMetrics.com. GoDaddy will not consider a white list to probe their hosting setup and look for empty ports and the like, even if it's just a few IP's to whitelist, even if it's just temporary.

While I appreciate that SecurityMetrics' inability to even probe makes it sound very secure and should be a passing grade, it isn't working out that way. GoDaddy told me, at all levels, even Presidential, that I had two options, order GoDaddy's shopping cart or host elsewhere.

I hear that the situation is a push towards certain shopping cart solutions, such as GoDaddy's shopping cart, PayPal and Google Checkout, where the PCI compliance is in large part the shopping cart providers'.

I posted my problem on BobParsons.me blog, but that's moderated and chose not to post the negative feedback I gave his company.

Posted by Duane A. Long, webmaster for greatolives.com. I work for Maurice Penna.