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I think shared hosting is now called “cloud” :) Unfortunately all cloud providers I know bank on JS. I like JS but when it is in the browser, on the server it’
by mrtksn 3y ago
I think shared hosting is now called “cloud” :)
Unfortunately all cloud providers I know bank on JS. I like JS but when it is in the browser, on the server it’s a disaster.
- arp242 3y agoCurrent cloud providers have very different execution environments; the typical shared webhost had one Apache process with mod_php and every account was just a different system account. What you needed as a hosting provider was a way of preventing file_get_contents("/home/someone-else/secret.txt"), which is what open_basedir gave you. And system(nefarious-stuff), which is what safe_mode gave you. Today that sort of thing is very rare; you will run in a virtual machine or container, and have an execution environment all to yourself.
- CoolCold 3y agoquite a lot of Wordpress setups run on sort of shared hostings to the date. Plesk and Cpanel are still a thing in this area. And Wordpress is still massive share of websites. PHP-FPM which has options to specify system user per pool is basically how restrictions on file_get_contents are enforced.