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Originally written by UA:

This is called overselling. It works based on the assumption that for every person who uses a large amount of the resources allocated to them, there will be many people who do not. You can either love this practice or hate it. Based on what you're asking for, you're probably going to be looking at overselling hosts.

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Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon:

I've looked around too, and so farthe best I've seem in aplus.net. I'll check out those others as well, but...

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Hello,
My current hosting package is up for renewal in a few months, and I\'m looking around for alternatives. A few questions about your hosting offer:

1. Your space and traffic space look so good that they almost seem unrealistic. Did I get that right - you offer 24 GB of space and 800 GB of monthly traffic for 5$ a month (for a two-year purchase)?

- Our basic package is Linux based one and includes 25 000MB and 800GB monthly traffic. Our customers gets what they pay for:)

2. Unlike many hosts I've looked at, you use PHP 5 (rather than PHP 4), which I need. However, the MySQL version is still 4. I realize PHP 5 has been around a year longer than MySQL 5 (which explains this), but is it possible that your MySQL servers will eventually be upgraded to version 5? (Just asking; MySQL 5 isn't essential for me)

-We do support MySQL 4.0.21 on our newest servers. We do provide cPanel and that is teh version of MySQL built in. CPanel is a third part software and for now MySQL5 is not available with it.

3. Does your web server support Java Servlets? (again, not essential). Also, is there any way to upload files to the server more securely than FTP (such as SFTP or shell access)?

- Java Servlets is not supported on our servers. We do not support SFTP on shared hosting as it requeres shell access. We do not offer Shell access on shared hosting due to security reasons.

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Originally written by I'll Steal Your Toast:

The Greek god of the Underworld no longer has his own hell planet-- Pluto. How ironic.

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Originally written by Drakefyre:

Mine don't usually break, but they get horribly twisted and lopsided and I try to bend them back into shape but fail miserably and end up wearing bent glasses for a year before getting new ones.

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ef, on Polaris:

Invision Powerboard software up to version 2.1.6 has a weakness that can be (and is being) exploited to execute malicious code, thus compromising vulnerable installations.

Version 2.1.6 closes that door.

The only existing cure is a software update to that version.

quote from forums/invisionpower.com:

"It has come to our attention that Invision Power Board 2.0.x and Invision Power Board 2.1.x contains two areas where malicious code could be executed. One area requires moderator access and other other requires a carefully crafted POST or GET request. Even though we've not been successful in expoiting IPB 2.1.6 using these methods in our own trials, we felt it best to strengthen security in these areas."

Older software versions contain these weaknesses too.

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Originally written by Dikiyoba:

Just as long as they don't decide that the moon is too large relative to the size of Earth and needs to be reclassified...

Dikiyoba.

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Originally written by Catweasle:

I have been running a number of web-servers for about 10 years. At present we have about 1.5M hits p. day and there are quite a few forums running on our servers.

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Originally written by Aran:

Just got back from the bookshop with The Salmon of Doubt, by Douglas Adams.

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I'm surprised you didn't already own that.

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