Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Friday, October 16, 2009 11:27:12 -0500 Modulok <modu...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 10/15/09, Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com> wrote:
I manage a couple of FreeBSD servers for a friend. He's gotten all
excited about content management and thinks that's the way to go. The
system he's familiar with is Windows only. I've done a little research,
but I'm wondering if anyone reading the list has experience with a
CMS on
FreeBSD - one that's in ports preferably.
Pros? Cons? Any known security issues?
If it's your server and you're the guy, (or your friends) needing
"content management" abilities... a simple SSH connection cannot be
beat. But maybe that's not what you had in mind :p
Yeah....I'm not the content guy. I'm the server admin. I'm also not
the ower. The owner likes CMS products since he's now using one, and
wants to install the one he uses on his server. But the one he uses is
only for Windows. Thus the question.
It is my opinion that they (CMSs) are nearly to the point it will take a
quadcore CPU and 4GB or memory to serve a single html page containing
the words "Hello World". Code light, they are not.
My experience with CMS such as Joomla, SurgarCRM, etc is that they are
to crackers as a lone lightbulb in the forest is to bugs.
- Keep them up to date.
- Subscribe to, and be attentive to, their security mailings.
- If you do not use a feature/module, remove it.
- Do not under any circumstances install PhpMyAdmin. My logs show if a
IP gets a hit on a CMS page, they immediately search for PhpMyAdmin
next. If you must install it, install it on another machine or under a
different domain. Then turn access on and off at the SQL server when needed.
We have a few CMSs that I could not talk Sales out of, two have had
problems. One was moved to it's on VPS because of issues.
Best of luck.
DAve
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