Hello. I am using First Data as my merchant/processor and setup everything through the payment module. I am using Hostmonster, which is a Zen Cart certified host.

I'm testing the payment processing now and run into a problem. When I complete the checkout process it hangs up for awhile, then it brings me back to step 2 in the payment process. No error message.

I checked the curltest and the Data Validation was "Good".

Since I wasnt getting any error messages I set the debug mode to Failure Alerts Only within the Linkpoint/YourPay API settings and received the following error:

2006 MySQL server has gone away
in:
[select customers_email_format from zen_customers where customers_email_address= '[email protected]']
2006 MySQL server has gone away
in:
[select count(*) as total from zen_sessions where sesskey = 'eafe689ff3dcda5c7bc316d4b21e6a79']
Also, I dont have an SSL cert installed yet. I'm getting around to it. Is an SSL required and would it have anything to do with the following error?

Any help would be apprecaited