I agree, I am a little demanding
sorry about my lazy quote
but i am just to lazy to post a reply over the other few posts and the other posts around here
let me just ask you 1 question and if you can answer it then you know why deeplist earn respect
first question
why do you need PDO ?
second question
do you know what PDO is ?
third question
why does deeplist want to test it on a sandbox ?? it got his reasons
last question
give me 5 min on a server with PDO enabled and i wanna bet that the host can reboot his pc about 7 times until he figures it out that it was my silly written script (now i answered my own questions .. hmm)
to make everything in short , because i am to lazy to wait on your reply ( at 5 am )
you ask things that are a high security risk
you say that you are a little demanding , so if i ask deeplist to open port 22 for me then i even wanna bet that he will do that
but if i ask for his root password then i am just a little demanding (what ?? no su to root ... lets find a other host who can provide me that )
that is basicly the thing you where asking on him
a "normal" user does not need PDO
scripts that are written with PDO are for DEVELOPING purpose and not for real use
they are made to find EVERY single error and to do REMOTE stuff
for the real test you just use cgi as it provide less problems , less memory/cpu hogs and a lot more security (for you and for your host)
same as php , you probaly dit not even noticed that deeplist is using php open basedir protection , and that he is using cgi instead DSO and suexec (got no clue about his settings , but thats what i supose he do for security)
not that that realy mathers , exept for security reasons then
a normal user does not need those certain settings , most scripts works just fine like a host setup there server
ofcourse you got good hosts that know how to configure a server and secure a server and other hosts that just use the basic install and wonder why everything goes down in 5 min
so to get to the final point
what seems not demanding for you is maybe asking for just to mutch
be happy that a host even like to provide support in the first place
let me say what a host is forced to do
1) keep your site online (you paid for it )
2) read his tos and live by his tos ( so you can get easy kicked)
3) ... there is no number 3
a host is only legaly bount to keep your site online as long you do not abuse the tos or aup
the support he provide is a extra (also called SLA )
depending on host to host is the support better/more then on other hosts
but you got no right to complain about support as we are not even need to provide support ( there is google and .... google ?? they provide you a nice 125k mill wikipedia with nice info )
then as extra note
i can provide you about 1200 differend hosts and as soon you even ask to them to change the server settings then they do 2 things
1) they say nice and friendly to you .. please pay us 50€ and we upgrade your account with the setting you asked , please note that your montly payment will be 50€ extra
2) i am sorry , but at current moment we can not upgrade your server , please buy a dedicated server with a value of 50€ to get the needed settings
to get to the point
there is no hosts that are willing to take the risk for 1 single client to make his server more weak then they already are
the host who does that instand because you ask for it means that they are
1) a host with the knowledge like you have ... i leave it to you to guess
2) a host that is just started and doesnt know how to configure
3) a host that will be dead in less then 1 month
so deeplist was just nice to you to investigate first what security risks it got , to check if it is a good idea to perform that upgrade and then even allow it after he is sure that it does not harm his security or server
then for the extra notes
to apply those kind of things you need to recompile stuff
those can be a real pain in the *** specialy if you got a custom compile like me (mp4 video psuedostreaming with apache
![Big Grin :D :D](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
try to get that done ^^ )
anyway
i hope you can understand my post and hope you can see why he is angry (send me spamm like you dit to him and be sure that you woulnd be able to acces any support ticket anymore for 1 week )
edit:
no clue why you think that we would care about a single client that left .. there are other clients that respect our quality and services
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