If you are having random problems uploading your website with Visual Site Designer to a Godaddy server, we just discovered something that explains why. GoDaddy recently made some changes to their systems that affect the way FTP connections work with 3rd-party programs. When using Visual Site Designer or any other program that connects with FTP, you may experience random connection drops that cause uploads to fail.

Basically what is going on is they allow you to authenticate with your normal FTP account information but somewhere along the line during a transfer they check the credentials again. If your password is not a strong password, they drop the connection. This would then happen over and over and over. By changing your FTP account password to a new stronger one, the problem immediately goes away.

See this article here at http://www.coffeecup.com/help/articles/ … -designer/ for further explanation.

Because GoDaddy is making other changes to their server, you may want to read this article on GoDaddy email issues.