[BNM] Moving away from Fasthosts

[Chris Billett]

With anyone else, you'd have a valid point. With Farcehosts, you just
don't. Sorry.

I left 'em a couple of years ago when they disabled formmail scripts and
didn't inform anyone. Lots of people were left without email contact form
messages for months before they realised that anything had been changed.

The list of their screw-ups just goes on and on.

> On Dec 8, 2007 7:57 AM, Jay Caines-Gooby <jay at gooby.org> wrote:
>
>> A dedicated server is always going to give you more flexibility than a
>> shared one, but then again unless its a managed box you'll have a a
>> bit more work to do.
>
> A point to consider is although you're probably disappointed with the
> break in at Fasthosts. Does the fact their servers have been
> compromised mean it is more or less likely for it to happen in the
> future? I'd say less. If they've got any sense they'll put some
> serious money into ensuring it doesn't happen again, meaning their
> hosting offering could soon be the most secure shared hosting platform
> around.
>
> Another point to consider if you do go down the route of getting
> yourself a dedicated server is if you know more about server security
> than Fasthosts do? If you really think you do then fine, go for it,
> but otherwise you might be making your hosting package less secure.
>
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