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I wish they had kept going till they found a web hosting firm that didn't have these issues. Can anyone -- not affiliated with such a firm -- recommend one? If you are affiliated with such a firm, and you respond anyway, please explain what you do differently.
Are the old hosting companies of the past still sharing the same disk with other users? I remember going cd .. and seeing a bunch of folders in /home from other users. If any one of those users used a chmod incorrectly I would be able to access their shit. It is not super likely for most files but well known files can be a problem. Beyond that, trusted CGI-BIN processes could probably be used to get around security c…
Standard containerization technology (e.g. docker) isn’t designed to sandbox untrusted code.
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Standard containerization technology (e.g. docker) isn’t designed to sandbox untrusted code.
Do tell what is designed to sandbox untrusted code
3 of the 5 companies they tested are really the same company. "Endurance, who runs Bluehost, iPage, and HostGator:"
The company is a fucking nightmare. ALL EIG brands should be avoided like the plague including Constant Contact, site5, bluehost, hostgator, fastdomains, justhost, hostmonster, ipage, NetFirms, UnifiedLayer, IpowerWeb, PowWeb, ResellerClub, HostNine, HostCentric, Domain.com, Dotster, Verio, AppMachine, Arvixe...etc...
They have horrible security. Hacked sites were the norm not the exception. The techs we had were decent, but when things started off-shoring the off-shore tech's were complete idiots who couldn't figure out how to add space to a VPS...That was in 2015, I'm sure now it's way worse. I left in 2014/2015 to do development full-time, my wife worked there till they shut down their Orem, UT operations.
We had friends who they actually got to move to AZ to work w/ hostgator during the transition, and then fired 3 months later after they didn't need them anymore and AFTER they'd already bought a house in AZ... real pieces of shit there...
The CEO even said 3 weeks before everyone got the notification they were being canned "Don't worry your jobs are all safe, nobody's getting laid off" ...lmao
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I emailed Bluehost, this is the response I got. Hello Joshua, Thank you for reaching out to Bluehost via our press@ email address; as a brief introduction, I am writing you from Endurance International Group, parent company to Bluehost and several other web hosting services. In regards to your questions for how to best protect your website, one of the best things you can do to invest in your business is to acquire we…
"You got hacked because you didn't give us enough money"... these guys should get into the Ransomware business.
3 of the 5 companies they tested are really the same company. "Endurance, who runs Bluehost, iPage, and HostGator:"
Can attest, having worked at the Bluehost brand as a tier 2 chat support (before they shut down everything and offshored all support to the Indian CEO's family's Indian call center). The company is a fucking nightmare. ALL EIG brands should be avoided like the plague including Constant Contact, site5, bluehost, hostgator, fastdomains, justhost, hostmonster, ipage, NetFirms, UnifiedLayer, IpowerWeb, PowWeb, ResellerCl…
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Can attest, having worked at the Bluehost brand as a tier 2 chat support (before they shut down everything and offshored all support to the Indian CEO's family's Indian call center). The company is a fucking nightmare. ALL EIG brands should be avoided like the plague including Constant Contact, site5, bluehost, hostgator, fastdomains, justhost, hostmonster, ipage, NetFirms, UnifiedLayer, IpowerWeb, PowWeb, ResellerCl…
Luckily most of those domain names already scream "do not trust this hosting service"
Witness all of the otherwise upright companies that have domains through GoDaddy.