[Gllug] Server ISP recommended?

[Jason]

The arrogance of youth :-)

I've been trying to take a greater interest in the wider Linux hosting
community since being elected to Nominet's PAB. It's a steep learning
curve and I started from quite a low base. Reading the emails on here is
part of that learning process. I should have waited a while before my
first post but when I saw Positive mentioned I couldn't resist :-) 

>From a Nominet point of view I would love suggestions from you guys.
With my Positive hat on I know, in retrospect, that what I said sounded
a bit like a quote from a sales brochure. I'm not a salesman but I
wanted to speak up for a company that I honestly enjoy working for. 

I'm going to carry on reading the posts on here and keeping quiet. I'm
sure we can improve what we do and the people who post here are the best
people to make suggestions. I generally write announcements at Posi and
some of the comments you guys have made about announcements in general
have been really helpful.

Anyway have a fantastic weekend 

Jason 



n Fri, 2005-05-13 at 16:23 +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 01:47:41PM +0100, Jan Kokoska wrote:
> > 
> > OK. With that paragraph I missed the point I was trying to make, really.
> > I meant calling one's company one of the best teams in the industry (in
> > an informal one-to-one discussion, I am not talking about corporate
> > website boilerplate) gives me creeps and makes me look at their
> > competitors instead. This means he *thinks* he knows it all, I don't
> > want to be there when he is proved painfully wrong.
> 
> This reminds me of the time in the distant past when I was hosting on
> a shared server provided by Powerhost (now long gone and not missed).
> At one point I raised a potential security risk with their sysadmin and
> got a reply that included the following:
> 
>   "it is not as dangerous as you may think the only way people can gain
>   access to add scripts is to use your username and password to upload
>   the script in the first place, plus someone has to find your webserver
>   and also have the knowledge to be able to get past my security on the
>   server. this brings it down to probably a handfull of people in the uk
>   or usa that have these skills, and luckily i know most of these people
>   so i think your sites safe"
> 
> I moved away from them very shortly afterwards :)
> 
> Dave...
> 
-- 
Jason <jason at positive-internet.com>

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