John_Nevill
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I haven't been around for a couple of weeks and thought I'd share the predicament that I found myself in, which ultimately raises the question on the future of shared host PHP based websites for image/forum use.
Upon returning from my holiday I was met with ~100 emails from members of my amateur photography website saying that it had stopped working, no one could post images, nor post on the forums.
To my dismay the host service provider had decided (in its infinite wisdom and without notice) to switch off a suite of PHP functionality, the very code the site depended upon
This left my website of 2 years in the making crippled. The excuse given was, "PHP has significant security vunerabilities and we reserve the right.....". Well you get the drift!
I decided to pick myself up, dust off the negatives (no pun intended) and rebuild the thing from scratch with a new host. My only real concern is is that it could happen again. It seems as though shared hosting contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on and PHP is getting a bad name.
Hence, more and more shared host providers are limiting the use of PHP. This surely does raise the issue of whether its a viable and sustainable code base for the development of images / CMS / Blog websites.
Anyhow, apologies for the off topic, but I thought it worthwhile sharing in a cautionary sense.
Upon returning from my holiday I was met with ~100 emails from members of my amateur photography website saying that it had stopped working, no one could post images, nor post on the forums.
To my dismay the host service provider had decided (in its infinite wisdom and without notice) to switch off a suite of PHP functionality, the very code the site depended upon
This left my website of 2 years in the making crippled. The excuse given was, "PHP has significant security vunerabilities and we reserve the right.....". Well you get the drift!
I decided to pick myself up, dust off the negatives (no pun intended) and rebuild the thing from scratch with a new host. My only real concern is is that it could happen again. It seems as though shared hosting contracts aren't worth the paper they're written on and PHP is getting a bad name.
Hence, more and more shared host providers are limiting the use of PHP. This surely does raise the issue of whether its a viable and sustainable code base for the development of images / CMS / Blog websites.
Anyhow, apologies for the off topic, but I thought it worthwhile sharing in a cautionary sense.