A renewed SSL certificate failed to silently install on a GoDaddy managed WordPress server, taking a client's site offline at midnight when the old certificate expired. What followed was a six-hour ordeal involving five support agents, repeated upsell attempts, a Cloudflare DNS blame game, and an unactivated certificate root cause — highlighting serious reliability concerns with GoDaddy's managed hosting platform.
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