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Shared hosting does mean that your provider is likely keeping their platform patched and up to date, which is possibly painful for you but likely nice for every
by BuildTheRobots 12y ago
Shared hosting does mean that your provider is likely keeping their platform patched and up to date, which is possibly painful for you but likely nice for everyone else.
The alternatives seem to be giving customers a VM or a dedicated server which tends to mean it's _never_ going to get any security updates since the day it was first set up.
Shared hosting is a pain, but the alternatives have the potential for even more pain.
- batou 12y agoAs a former herder of dedicated servers purchased for this sort of thing, you'd be surprised how difficult it is telling people they need to pay to upgrade it. We had a client with an old supermicro P3 running red hat 7 (not RHEL) until last year. Genuinely surprised it lasted as long as it did. Edit: it was RH7, not RH5. Just checked. Still bad.
- BuildTheRobots 12y agoI used to work as a DCO in a relatively large DC. It was always slightly terrifying when you'd be asked to investigate a customers unresponsive dedic only to find out it's attempting to boot ubuntu 6 LTS. "Well I don't see why it's broken -it was working absolutely fine and we've not touched it in years!"