On Sunday 05 October 2003 04:24, messju mohr wrote: > the cgi-sapi has a big advantage in a shared hosting environment: > suexec - your php-scripts run with a distict uid for each customer. > > this is by far better than the half-baked crutch called safe-mode. the > fact that the cgi-sapi's performance is worse than apache-sapi's > shouldn't bother you as much as security. your webhost will decide how > many customers (=virtual hosts) he puts on one machine anyway and > that's by far more noticable than the differences between > cgi-sapi/apache-sapi, IMHO.
A proper virtual hosting solution is what all vendors (of shared hosting environments) should provide, with each user having their own virtual root. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Dyslexics have more fnu. */ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
