> You pretty much have two options (short of serving your pages
> in-house): 1)
> Collocate your own machine with an ISP. You and only you have
> control of the
> machine. 2) Work a deal with the ISP to give you a single
> machine, no shared
> customers, that they would allow you to turn back on the risky
> tags.
I'd like to add a third option: Ask your hosting provider to implement Advanced
Security with Security Sandboxes. Though learning how to implement Advanced Security
can be a challenge for the uninitiated, once you know how to do it it's pretty
straightforward. If they are unwilling or unable to do this, there are other hosting
providers who already have Advanced Security and Sandboxing set up to allow you to use
most of those restricted tags.
Some URL's you might recommend your hosting provider look at:
http://www.allaire.com/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=7745
http://www.allaire.com/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=19491
"If using Advanced Security and security sandboxing, administers can lock out the use
of these tags by some developers and allow their use by others. They can also lock
down the directories to which the retrieved files are saved with a secure sandbox.
Particularly in a hosting environment where developers from different organizations
might share the same server and where the server administrator may not be 100 percent
sure of the motivation or intentions of the developers, it would be a good idea for
the hosting company to investigate use of security sandboxing."
Short Article on sandboxing:
http://www.hostindex.com/cfjan00.shtm
Best Regards,
Seth
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