 Re: Hosting Features - Or Not
Duende wrote:
> While sitting in a puddle Blinky the Shark scribbled in the mud:
>> I need some opinions from the WWW Webmaster Wisdom Pool.
>> I'm moving a couple of small sites from an ISP's[1] barebones-featured
>> hosting to a "real" (it's their bag - it's not just a sidelight for
>> them) host. Barebones was okay for the two essential freebies. But
>> after signing up with the new host, I read (can't read it *all* before
>> cutting the deal) in one of their web forums (a user quoting an email
>> response he got from Support):
>> "It appears that the latest security update has broken the
>> html pages which contain php code. In order to work the pages
>> must have a php extension because our implementation of
>> phpsuexec doesn't support AddType instructions in .htaccess"
>> I've been using AddType for specifying charset (as often recommended in
>> here and/or alt.html), and in the process of revamping one of the sites
>> I'd added another for getting .html parsed by PHP.
>> I'd like some opinions on this: is this a sign that I should bolt while
>> I'm still within the 30-day money-back period, because I've just seen
>> the tip of the "sorry, we don't do that" iceberg from these guys -- or
>> am I just going to find that most hosting outfits have a bunch of
>> inoperabilities and quirks like that that I'll just have to live with
>> by tweaking my own code and/or approach?
>> [1]Not Earthlink, which is my primary ISP.
> PageZone did that a while back. Got me wondering what's comming soon to
> more hosts.
And PageZone is my new (if temporary <g>) host. The duration will in
part depend on responses to my question, here. This is a very
knowledgeable gang, here, and its input will carry a lot of weight. As
far as your wondering about the future, yeah -- that's a concern, here,
too. And, of course, if aggravations of this nature are commonplace,
there's no need for me to bolt just so I can keep banging my head
against the wall elsewhere; I'd be better off staying put, adjusting
and just grumbling a bit.
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