> > And don't get me started on the subject of people running e-commerce > businesses on shared hosting accounts... ;)
A contract I had a couple years ago I went through a big fiasco with just this. The company was already using a shared host (a very cheap one at that) and when we told them that they needed a dedicated host, they refused at first. They nearly pulled out until I showed them how vulnerable their 100,000+ customers data was. Their log-on for their administration was not secured with SSL, they were collecting CC data along with the CCV codes into a shared database that was completely insecure. I finally proved it to them when I installed phpMyAdmin on a separate account at the host and you could login to their database using root with no password. Yes. the host had set root privileges with no password on a shared host. Needless to say this rather large website was moved to a dedicated host. -- /Kevin Pepperman ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:330796 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
