[TYPO3-english] Provider forces customers to update their software

2013-05-29 Thread Robert Wildling
Hi, I'd like to know your opinion about that: The Swiss provider hosttech.ch recently sent out an email telling their customers to update to newer software or get the current installation deleted because of too old and too insecure scripts that potentially endager the whole eco system of host

Re: [TYPO3-english] Provider forces customers to update their software

2013-05-29 Thread Peter Kühnlein
Am 29.05.2013 13:08, schrieb Robert Wildling: Hi, I'd like to know your opinion about that: The Swiss provider hosttech.ch recently sent out an email telling their customers to update to newer software or get the current installation deleted because of too old and too insecure scripts that p

Re: [TYPO3-english] Provider forces customers to update their software

2013-05-29 Thread Rudy Gnodde
Hello Robert, Op 29-5-2013 13:08, Robert Wildling schreef: Hi, I'd like to know your opinion about that: The Swiss provider hosttech.ch recently sent out an email telling their customers to update to newer software or get the current installation deleted because of too old and too insecure scr

Re: [TYPO3-english] Provider forces customers to update their software

2013-05-29 Thread JoH asenau
Am 29.05.2013 13:08, schrieb Robert Wildling: Hi, I'd like to know your opinion about that: The Swiss provider hosttech.ch recently sent out an email telling their customers to update to newer software or get the current installation deleted because of too old and too insecure scripts that pote

Re: [TYPO3-english] Provider forces customers to update their software

2013-05-29 Thread Søren Malling
Hi, Well - if your provider is not able to secure your customer environment in > such a way that running an outdated PHP application won't harm other > customers or the rest of their "ecosystem", they should immediately look > for better admins. > "Harming the rest of the ecosystem" is a weak ter

Re: [TYPO3-english] Provider forces customers to update their software

2013-05-29 Thread Dmitry Dulepov
Hi! Rudy Gnodde wrote: A provider doesn't want one website using old/insecure versions of a CMS threatening the entire server or network. In such cases providers will use virtuallization :) -- Dmitry Dulepov ___ TYPO3-english mailing list TYPO3-engl

Re: [TYPO3-english] Provider forces customers to update their software

2013-05-29 Thread Robert Wildling
Thanks for oyur responses! I agree: the interest of a provider in the software I use and looking out for is most welcome. But shutting down an installation arguing that the provider's security in general could be harmed, causes strange feelings... @Rudy: which other providers do have such a

Re: [TYPO3-english] Provider forces customers to update their software

2013-05-29 Thread Rudy Gnodde
Op 29-5-2013 15:11, Robert Wildling schreef: @Rudy: which other providers do have such a policy? I only worked on about 10 providers so far, but none - except hosttech - is behaving that rigorousely. I don't remember all of them, but the last hosting provider I was with which had this policy a

Re: [TYPO3-english] Provider forces customers to update their software

2013-05-29 Thread Kay Strobach
Hello Robert, i also know a bunch of providers who behave this way. I recently configured / built a software to detect old software to ensure, that not a single customer installation is hacked. As TYPO3 4.2 is really outdated i understand the arguments. Imagine a code injection, which allows the