[Gllug] recommend a (web) hosting company for linux box

[David Irvine]

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 17:08, Paul Lee wrote:
> Tethys wrote:
> > Simon Wilcox writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>It depends on what you need. I would suggest that for most hosting needs,
> >>taking a server managed up to OS level would be the best bet as the
> >>hosting provider should then be resonsible for any upgrades/patches to the
> >>OS, leaving you free to concentrate on your applications.
> > 
> > 
> > Nice theory. Beware that whatever the contract says, your service provider
> > may not actually do this in real life, and you may find your servers
> > unpatched against published security vulnerabilities. Not that this is
> > the bitter voice of experience or anything...
> > 
> > Tet
> > 
> 
> 
> Joined a company who were renting four `managed` servers with a major 
> dedicated server hosting company
> for £500 a month  each (they were a pretty decent spec).
> 
> When I took over, discovered one had an old vulnerable version of Bind, 
> another was an open mail relay, another,
> for some reason was providing anonymous ftp services and apart from  one 
> seemingly ad hoc kernel update, non
> had been patched.
> 

I usually invite my hosting customers to have a look on one of our
servers, and let them see what they think, i dont know if this is always
possible, but if you can get a potential company to give you a demo
account on the box your going to be using, or a similar box etc, then it
allows you to have a good look around and see how it is set up and
managed, that way you can see if its got more security holes than a sift
or whether its likely to withstand any prodding by mr script kiddie.

If possible you should also try and ask some techy questions to their
support guys, that will also give you an idea on how clued up they are.

HTH

David




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