[Techtalk] offsite backup for home users

[chris]

oh yes! I didn't intend to suggest the problem was with cpanel.  I'm more nonplussed about the webhost's lack of communication (or even owning up to a problem)  when there's an issue and it just so happens that over the past year I've worked on several sites hosted there that were reportedly hacked via cpanel on DreamHost (iow it wasn't a universal cpanel hack).  Thanks for making me clarify :)

chris



On Nov 16, 2012, at 11:05 AM, Tracey <tclark77 at tlcnet.info> wrote:

> Hi Chris,
> 
> I work for cPanel, in the automated test writing & QA dept. Your comments caught my attention. While I am, admittedly, biased due to being a cP employee, I am not blinded to shortfalls in the software.
> 
> 
> On 11/16/2012 10:38 AM, chris wrote:
>> I wouldn't use DreamHost for anything that needed to be secure though.  I've fixed one too many hacked websites that seemed to have been hacked through their serverside cpanel application and they're not particularly verbose when there's a problem like that until enough customers speak up about it.
>> 
>> hth
>> chris
>> 
> 
> To clarify, cPanel is not "an application". It is complex software that includes a web front end as well as many scripts and rpms which integrate with Apache, mySQL, PHP and other server software. While the cPanel software itself has not been 100% immune from being hacked, usually it's an outdated or otherwise insecure PHP script that is responsible for a website getting hacked.
> 
> Obviously, I can't speak for DreamHost. If they regularly have security problems, certainly they aren't a top choice for any backup or webhosting needs.
> 
> Tracey C
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