That'll be 99.9% of all hosts out there then, right?
24khost hacked?
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Jeffrey
New Member
This is very true. All of the major attacks have been targeted towards third party software. Personally, I would rather just code up something myself and stay out of WHMCS, but it doesn't look like that will be happening anytime soon.
peterw
New Member
If you are able to take care about security. A lot of devs do not know newer attack vectors and so don't know how to harden your scripts.
 
As someone who has made internal cms/vmcp from scratch for companies... it's really not that difficult, I find programming video games far more challenging. My background is microcontrollers for various things, remote automation, no scripty stuff, schools teaching scripting script instead of C, and people wonder why the world is full of bad programmers.
Billing is harder than the actual CMS/VPS-CP because you have to work with mostly ugly APIs... and often insecure APIs because people don't use them properly. *coughcreditcardnumbersinrawjsonoverhttp*
 
As someone who has made internal cms/vmcp from scratch for companies... it's really not that difficult, I find programming video games far more challenging. My background is microcontrollers for various things, remote automation, no scripty stuff, schools teaching scripting script instead of C, and people wonder why the world is full of bad programmers.
Billing is harder than the actual CMS/VPS-CP because you have to work with mostly ugly APIs... and often insecure APIs because people don't use them properly. *coughcreditcardnumbersinrawjsonoverhttp*
Why even use script stuff if it's so hard to secure? It's a mess... when I make a hard-coded web server my only vulnerability are the static/shared libs I use, I have very tight controls on my own code with a user/permissions system. You just have to assume all input is hostile.
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wdq
Quade
Not quite yet.
Isnt this the same guy who argued SSLs arent necessary on LET?
wdq
Quade
Yeah, I'm pretty sure he is.
Better not, I have 2 VPS and was about to order more before he got hacked.
At some point I feel I should start seriously fishing for a host to work with.
I can develop software; VPS-Panel/CMS/Forum/Ticket(skipping email and webhosting, will have API for that, not my areas, my real area is micros), host provides some resources to test software, they can use for whatever. An open source project, lots of eyes peering on easy to read code, very modular, easy to audit.
We are not dead, we are not gone.
I have been working 2 jobs
Fulltime job - 11 hours a day ( non-webhost related)
Paper route - 4-5 hours a day (weekends)
plus doing 24khost
Some financial issues have come up. This is also the reason for the failed expansion as I ran out of personal fund and have had to re-evaluate things. 24khost pays for itself. No worries about dead pooling. Growth has been put on hold though.
Website is a work in progress right now. Just haven't had time to finish it up. Will be doing it soon.
I have been working 2 jobs
Fulltime job - 11 hours a day ( non-webhost related)
Paper route - 4-5 hours a day (weekends)
plus doing 24khost
Some financial issues have come up. This is also the reason for the failed expansion as I ran out of personal fund and have had to re-evaluate things. 24khost pays for itself. No worries about dead pooling. Growth has been put on hold though.
Website is a work in progress right now. Just haven't had time to finish it up. Will be doing it soon.
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Shados
Professional Snake Miner
Yeah, but to be fair games programming can be fairly hard - there are a lot of potentially non-trivial problems, and you need to solve them all with very hardline timing guarantees otherwise you blow your framerate targets.