Hi, Tom. Take a look at Dreamhost — it meets all your requirements. Regarding to netpbm, pnmtopng etc. - I suppose you'll have to compile them yourself (if they aren't installed already). But generally it takes only ./configure --prefix=/home/username/ && make && make install. Yes, hoster allows this.
2009/6/18 Tom Boutell <[email protected]> > > 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 > > > > -- With the best regards, Andy. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
