Hosting Features - Or Not

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.

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Blinky Linux Registered User 297263

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.


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Never trust a cat to do a dog's job.

While sitting in a puddle Blinky the Shark scribbled in the mud:

>> 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.

Just had it happen again with another host. They must have changed things
last night. PageZone is about as reliable as you can get.

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Never trust a cat to do a dog's job.

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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Blinky Linux Registered User 297263

While sitting in a puddle Mark Parnell scribbled in the mud:

> get a new editor

You just got the job.

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Mr. D?
Never trust a cat to do a dog's job.

Mark Parnell wrote:

> I'm not Toby. :-(

You seem disappointed?

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http://webpageworkshop.co.uk -- FREE Web tutorials and references

Toby Inkster wrote:

> Blinky the Shark wrote:

>> 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.

> You could always use ".php" extensions, but use ".html" URLs thanks to
> mod_rewrite.

> RewriteRule (.*)\.html $1.php [L]

Thanks for the tip. <saving it> Yeah, as long as they haven't disabled
that, too.

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Blinky Linux Registered User 297263