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The other big downside is that you can't just go in and kill an errant process if your alpha version does something weird. And you're also in the dark about wh
by dpapathanasiou 20y ago
The other big downside is that you can't just go in and kill an errant process if your alpha version does something weird.
And you're also in the dark about what those other processes (those not owned by you) might be doing at any given time.
Controlling the entire server as root is just better.
- jaggederest 20y agowell, to be honest, you get a shell account. I'm hosting stuff on dreamhost, and it's entirely possible to killall my-errant-script when you need to. Just realize that you're a pretty low-priveledge user. It's a great deal for static file hosting though, if you're a data intensive site as opposed to CPU-intensive site (or even a data-intensive site in addition to cpu-intensive)