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> Parent comment is referring to software vulnerabilities running on the box itself, not vulnerabilities in your website. When Apache or whatever it is that you
by clarry 8y ago
> Parent comment is referring to software vulnerabilities running on the box itself, not vulnerabilities in your website. When Apache or whatever it is that you use to serve your static website comes out with a vulnerability that allows RCE as root
Or you can opt out of this mess and run a simple server. Not as root.
The update & maintenance treadmill can be slowed down to nearly a halt if you're ok using simple software that doesn't have a billion features and just as many bugs. Which, I suppose, someone running a static site would be quite willing to do.
- kakarot 8y agoI'm sure we all have fond memories of that time we sat our grandparents down when they wanted to make an anniversary site and explained to them how easy it was to run a simple server, after which they spun one up in a container and secured it no problem. Little old grandma just loves ssh'ing into her pet server every day to read her system logs.
- clarry 8y agoLittle old grandma ain't making sites with GoDaddy either, so why do you have to come up with such an irrelevant strawman. Please.
- kakarot 8y agoMy grandmother's website for her small business was purchased via GoDaddy. This was before those commercials even started airing. It's not a strawman at all. I am speaking from real experience, except for the part where my grandmother could tell you the difference between SSH and SSL.
- technion 8y agoGrandpa is exactly the target market for GoDaddy. Look who they've got advertising the company in Australia. http://yaffa-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/adnews/live/images/yafNews/featureImage/screen-shot-2018-02-18-at-6.26.59-pm1.png http://yaffa-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/adnews/live/images/yafNews...