Cheap webhosting = bad security
For production work, steer well away from free/cheap webhosting companies like hostultra.
While reading a discussion about .htaccess files at corz.org, someone complained about lack of security skills of the admins there, where instead of securing their boxes, they disabled some useful php functions due to “security issues.”
By the way the .htaccess discussion whose link is provided above is very good, far more readable that the one at apache.org
Written by pinolobu on May 11th, 2006 with no comments.
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