[Gmail-Lounge] Re: php questions

On 12/3/05, Allen Day <so.orange@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As near as I can tell, the "most web hosts" that Kass is talking about is
> from personal experience with the likes of geocities, angefire, tripod and
> maybe godaddy.com (I don't know where they stand on it -- but they're cheap
> ;)
>
> I know I wouldn't bother with a web host that imposed such limitations on
> .htaccess -- I don't much care for hosts that don't give me shell access,
> either -- but I imagine only reckless, lousy hosts would provide that too
> :-)

Godaddy or any other major web hosting company will not provide you
mod_rewrite, the ability to change what files are executed as scripts,
or any other feature like that, never shell access. These are all
considered "bad" in the security world.

The companies that do provide you tons of access are the tiny
fly-by-night operations who will give customers that kind of access
out of ignorance or just to keep customers without regard to the
system's security or the security of the other customers data.

And quite frankly, mod_rewrite and executing odd types as scripts are
not neccessary for "normal" websites anyway. One thing that is
slightly annoying is Godaddy dosn't support the Path Info type of urls
for tricking like Google into thinking a page isn't dynamic. Google
dosn't like to index many dynamic pages.. thats the only real concern.