MikeJ

I'll second that. I've used Crucial memory for serveral upgrades over the years and never had a problem with it.

Apparantly a lot of people thought about hosting on Christmas.

phpBB versions prior to 2.0.11 are vulnerable to multiple methods of compromise, as noted here. The compromise that allows access to config.php actually uses a vulnerability in PHP (the language, not phpBB) versions prior 4.3.10. TCH has already upgraded to 4.3.10 to protect against those attacks. While we are on the subject of phpBB, I'd also like to note again that there is a vulnerability in the widely used Attachment Module for phpBB that you should be aware of if you use that module.

That's cool, Snipe. Congrats! Unfortunately, it's 12:37pm EST as I read this...

Taken directly from PHP.net: So basically, require is just a little more strict, and better to use if the included file is required for the rest of the script/page to function properly. Not sure about the header part, maybe someone who codes in it more regularly can chime in.

TCH servers are currently running 1.3.33, not 1.3.3. And mod_dav is not something you can install in your account (because it integrates with the Apache webserver, requiring root access to install), nor something that TCH supports. All the servers should be running the same version of Apache. If you need help getting access to your other two accounts, just submit a helpdesk ticket and they can get you back into them.

As Bill said, the main thing is they just need to make sure they keep their software up to date. There have been a couple of vulnerabilities disclosed recently that affect phpBB. The first was in phpBB itself for versions prior to 2.0.11, and the other was in PHP versions prior to 4.3.10 which phpBB (among many other packages) was also affected by. So they just need to make sure their phpBB (and all modules) is up to date, and their provider's PHP is up to date (as well as any other software used). [Moving to appropriate forum...]

In general, 2.661 is just a temporary solution anyway. Most of the plugins (like the one above) for MT these days I don't believe are supporting 2.661. You're better off evaluating your future direction, then based on that upgrade to 3.x, or switch to another system.

The use of a server-based filter to block the heavy hitting comment spammers is a temporary solution to get things back under control (and we've already relaxed the block list a bit). We are still looking into many options to help MT users to regain control of their blogs, while not affecting non-blog users. We apologize if anyone is affected negatively by our interim efforts. If you find a script of yours is failing or being blocked, please submit a help desk ticket so we can review it. If any MT users who are getting a lot of comment spam (or were and are successfully blocking it) and know your way around MT 3.0 well would like to volunteer to test out some ideas we have for blocking it and show me some samples of what you are still getting, feel free to contact me... mikej (at) totalchoicehosting.com, or IM at tchgurumikej (AIM or Yahoo).

If BIND is what's confusing you, BIND (http://www.isc.org/index.pl?/sw/bind/) is just the name of the Nameserver (DNS) software used. References to BIND will be references to defining your subdomains in DNS.

No. Semi-dedicated is no different than the standard reseller plans except for the limits and you share the server with very few other resellers.

You don't say?

Note that this is a vulnerability in a module for phpBB that is not installed via your cPanel phpBB installation. This is just a notice in the event you have added this module to your phpBB installation yourself. An advisory listed as Highly Critical was recently issued by Secunia for the phpBB Attachment Module for versions prior to 2.3.11. It is highly recommended if you use this software that you upgrade to 2.3.11 immediately. If you only installed phpBB via cPanel and did not install any modules yourself, you have nothing to worry about (just make sure as noted in the pinned topic in this same forum that you are running 2.0.11 of phpBB). The original notice and details of how to upgrade can be found here.

No snow here in Chicago right now (we had a little bit briefly last month). Saw a bit of snow in Michigan though when I was driving through on Sunday (it was snowing then)... passed at least a dozen cars who ended up in ditches... fortunately none of them look serious, and only one involved more than one vehicle. I grew up in the midwest all my life and it still boggles me how poorly some people drive in snow.

If you are looking to just forward incoming mail to your blog, you can pipe it to a program via the cPanel filters which will give you the same basic functionality as the .qmail files. I know others here have done exactly that already.

It was a lot of fun. Great to meet Bill and the gang in person, and the others who attended from the TCH family. But man, I'm tired now. Got up at 4am, drove to Michigan from Chicago (about a 5 hour drive), attended party, played some pool, then turned around and drove back home. Still...was well worth it (regardless of winning a PC ). Thanks again Bill for putting it together! Thumbs Up

Zimbabwe Next > Q

"Hor d'oeuvres at TCH's First Annual Party."

You'd be better off with a PHP bittorrent tracker. Much easier to setup and are designed more for environments like shared servers. You can find a list of some here: http://www.filesoup.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=6780 The obvious disclaimers apply. Too much activity and we'll have to ask you to shut it down (shouldn't be a problem if it's just films for your friends), and make sure the content being advertised by the tracker is legal (again... shouldn't be a problem if it's your own stuff).

We do block some outgoing non-standard connections. If there is a particular one you need, submit a support ticket with the information about what you need access to.

In reality, email is not a good way to collect financial information. Email was never built to be a secure communication method. You would be much better off collecting that information in a secure database, and then accessing the database to get the information out. The problem with email is it's transferred in plain text, stored on the server in plain text, and (even if you use pop or imap over SSL to download it) stored in plain text on your PC. This would only be for sending email, and this works great for the connection between you and your server, but it'll still go from the server to the ultimate destination over a non-encrypted connection.

phpinfo won't show any info on mod_security (it's not a php related module). Currently, TCH does not provide or support mod_security.

No, it's always been installed, just rarely asked for, so the person(s) who responded before probably thought it wasn't.

Well Python isn't a web server module like PHP, so you would have to run python scripts as cgi's if you wanted to use them for your website. The location of the python binary is "/usr/bin/python".

Python is version 2.2.2 and is fully supported (and available for use). The mailing list package we provide (Mailman) is written in python, among other things. Feel free to use python.