[Wylug-discuss] Good news or bad?

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 19 Sep 2005 17:03, Chris Davies wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Sep 2005, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > The requested URL /what_server_am_i was not found on this server.
> > Apache/2.0.48 (Unix) PHP/4.3.4 Server at www.186k.co.uk Port 80
>
> John Hodrien wrote:
> > I was assuming that was his point...
>
> It claims to be unix-ish. Apache is at least 18 months old and was
> superseded in March 2004 with a security update. It's got a fairly old
> version of PHP, too. 

But is it not true to say that security-patched applications don't 
necessarily reflect the update-date?

> I suspect one of your criteria is that you'll have 
> to decide whether you're happier with an ISP that appears to be using a
> "less secure" version of apache/php or one that uses IIS.
>
No question on that, in my mind ;-)  Even with an older version I'd still 
back apache.

Anne
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