> I have used a few different Web hosting companies, and I > have never seen a case where my home directory was my > document root. I have always had a directory like > public_html/ or www/ that was my personal document root, so > as long as I don't place files in there, they are not > accessible via URL. > > Does your experience differ?
I have experience with 3 hosters...My homepage - 10 ? a year, no frills, no tech support except via forum where I parked my domain. They allocate a web root directory (/home/dhxxxx) for my homepage,You control what you place there and everything is visible unless you .htaccess the directory. For work, our old ISP still has a hosting contract for our old site that is still active. You can get the company to create a directory with specific access rights for FTP access... but you cannot access these directories at all via the web server (lack of access rights for apache and php) - and their phone support is worse than what I pay 10 euros a year from my personal host, but that is another discussion! As for our 50 meg of space that we recieve at work from FT-Oleane with our internet access package, I believe that it is again a plain, no frills, no private directory visible root... I know that you can get much better services, but from there, you really need to go and rent a virtual linux box, and not just space on what is called here "mutualised hosting", or even trust your business oriented ISP to give you a professional hosting and online storage solution... but for that, the price is not the same... The final solution is to install a Linux gateway for the home network, and get a dynamic DNS solution up and running, and from there, you manage your own rights, and to heck with 200 sites on a box! (the bandwidth could be better too!) Cheers, Daniel -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
