Hi folks, We're looking for a solid hosting company that can meet these requirements:
* PHP 5.2.6 or better (suitable for Symfony 1.2, with PDO/MySQL/gd all properly enabled) * The netpbm utilities are installed, or can be (pnmtopng and friends) * system() calls are permitted * The files of other clients are absolutely NOT visible in the file system, even if individual file permissions are "wrong" * The host takes responsibility for keeping standard operating system package items such as PHP, Apache, MySQL reasonably up to date and secure We're able to find all but the last of the above in "dedicated virtual" offerings from hostmysite, mediatemple, slicehost and other providers, but these hosts take a "hands-off"hy in the future - they don't take care of OS updates, so if there's a security hole in PHP you'd better update it yourself. "Shared hosting" offerings usually *are* managed in this way, however they generally either don't have current versions of PHP, don't allow system() and the netpbm utilities etc., or don't have chroot jail setups to prevent clients from seeing each other's files, especially when those files need to be written to by Apache (an aboslute requirement for Symfony, which writes PHP code out to cache files that are world-writable, so any Symfony site can be hacked trivially on such a host). Any recommendations for hosts that meet all of the above requirements? We'll probably wind up using one of the "dedicated virtual" options and making a standard practice of logging in to type "apt-get upgrade" on a regular basis, but it would be nice to find a managed host that took on that responsibility and still met the rest of the requirements. -- Tom Boutell P'unk Avenue 215 755 1330 punkave.com window.punkave.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
