James — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:02:34 +0000

Some fine points

remembrancebook — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 16:32:38 +0000

trouble is, someone setting up a set for the first (or second time) frequently doesn't know what they may need in the future.

As someone who never does things the easy way I speak from experience. I've just moved a site to a new server after twelve months because it developed in ways I hadn't imagined, and I now need to run programmes on my server that my old server wouldn't allow. You definately get what you pay for.

Greg K — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:40:22 +0000

In our companies case, it was determined that it was a 3rd party script that was installed onto one of the sites. They ended up completely deleting all files and re uploading the web pages, so far no pages affected.

Now if it was me, I would have done some elimination to find out which one it was, but as I mentioned someone else had done it. According to him, he only installed scripts from the host's control panel, (how truthful that is, who knows).

I told him though, as long as they are with this cheap host, don't install any 3rd party scripts because they all run as our user name, allowing them to modify any files we have.

-Greg

demonhale — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 04:13:17 +0000

That's one of my dillema as a web designer as well as a developer, some clients insist on getting their own hosting which is ok if they heed my suggestions, but most of the time they will skimp on the most essential part which is security. They will get injection attacks, and the same insertions as Greg has, they would then blame me for those which I try to explain in vain. They think I'm sabotaging them especially if the insertion code makes popups. What also ticks me the most is when client computers have trojans and when a certain keyword on their page triggers a trojan warning, they immediately associate it with the site when it actually is because of their infected computers...

I hope they actually start reading these stuff to know what's important in getting a design and development service...

Lottoplus — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 18:34:59 +0000

To get good hosting doesn't have to cost earth, if a person isn't willing to pay about €3.95 (to host 25 sites) a month for good hosting with a good control panel and all up to date software after investing into a website its really their own look out.

Sonic_Wolf — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:23:27 +0000

Personally i steer well clear of these cheapo £1 sites.
You get hit with restrictions, the site isn't even your own and the bandwidth is capped (slow surfing etc).
For newbies starting out it's cool but once you get up and running the big bad world of domain names and hosting companies beckons