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> . Web protocols and web browsers change.

Yeah the http (web) protocol has changed as follows:

1991 0.9
1990 1.0
1997 1.1
2015 2.0

Yeah, every five years or so you need to run "yum update http" in order to support the latest version of the web protocol.

> The data needs to have search requests and transmissions encrypted because it can be packet sniffed

We charge $15 for a TLS cert and $25 to set it up. We suggest getting a 3-year cert, so that comes to $20/year.

The summary says 200,000 visitors per month. Guesstimate 10 pages deep, so 2 million pages. One VM with 1GB RAM running Apache can serve about 150 requests per second of static content. If your joining database tables, get 2-4GB of RAM and call it 100 rps. 100 requests per second is 260 million pages per month, so about 100 times as much as you need.

> These "small servers" are not free

Right, they are $120 for managed hosting of a dedicated server.
https://www.hostgator.com/dedi...

The $20 VPS would probably be sufficient for only 200,000 visitors, but let's over-engineer by two orders of magnitude and get a managed dedicated server.

You see, the US Government is very keen about governing exports. They prohibit shipping many products into restricted countries and they actively police it in a serious manner. Anyone who's product gets found in a restricted country is in hot water. It doesn't matter if the product(s) was sold through an intermediary or 20 middle men, the manufacturer is 100% responsible for asserting, under penalty of law, that their products will not end up in a restricted country and that's that. The treasury department even publishes a monthly list of offenders they catch but I apologize as I cannot seem to find it on google.

To address this issue, many companies that have been caught are required by the US Treasury Dept to document every single end user of their product. Yes, every single unit that is sold must be documented as to where it's final resting place is. I doubt Cisco is under this kind of requirement (unless they've been caught in the past) but it seems this new policy is a huge risk for them in that area. If you were an Iranian supply store trying to procure Cisco equipment, this seems like a good way to do it without anyone knowing or being able to track it --- and that's a serious risk for Cisco.

The minute one of those units gets found in Iran (or any restricted country), all hell will break loose. Again, it doesn't really matter how it got there.....

Here is a good overview of the requirements and Here is a company that has a good policy summary that they live by. Smart on them.

Understand that this has nothing to do with NSA or espionage. This is just a basic requirement of doing business overseas and exporting products. Doesn't matter whether it's plastic dog poo, Intel CPU's, lab equipment, cranes, or other engineered equipment

http://www.hostgator.com/dedicated.shtml all you need

I actually have a reseller account at hostgator and looked into their domain registry services a while back.. I just revisited them and this is their page.. http://www.hostgator.com/domains/

Which redirects to this.. https://www.registryrocket.com/default.asp?ec=5103184A-8C21-4EFA-ACA0-0

Which is not very confidence inspiring..

Their webhosting is pretty good to great.. this.. I wouldnt drag up my gang of domains to..

though for all I know they support SOPA too.

They do not support SOPA.

Seeing that official Hostgator blog has a post entitled "SOPA must Die" and is offering discounts for those who enter the coupon code NOSOPA, I would say that thery probably don't support it.

Btw, if you really want to sign up with HostGator, then see their blog. They offer 50% off with the official NOSOPA promo code, not 25% what this joker Shikaku is spamming with his own referral code.

Hostgator stands against SOPA http://blog.hostgator.com/2011/12/22/sopa-must-die/ and has adjustable VPS to your needs by level.

http://hostgator.com/

Use coupon code nosopa25percent for 25% off your entire order as well.

Hostgator stands against SOPA http://blog.hostgator.com/2011/12/22/sopa-must-die/ and has adjustable VPS to your needs by level.

http://hostgator.com/

Use coupon code nosopa25percent for 25% off your entire order as well.

Hostgator has great support and stands against SOPA: http://blog.hostgator.com/2011/12/22/sopa-must-die/

http://hostgator.com/ [hostgator.com]

They offer great hosting and domain management with support for everything you'd ever need, even with shared hosting. Technical support is also great and instantaneous.

Use coupon code nosopa25percent for 25% off your entire order as well.

Hostgator has great support and stands against SOPA: http://blog.hostgator.com/2011/12/22/sopa-must-die/

http://hostgator.com/ [hostgator.com]

They offer great hosting and domain management with support for everything you'd ever need, even with shared hosting. Technical support is also great and instantaneous.

Use coupon code nosopa25percent for 25% off your entire order as well.

Use "NODADDY" a Name.com for 10% off transfer ins (COM, NET, ORG, TV, INFO, IN, US, CO, ME & TEL) and also receive 40% off any hosting plans.
HostGator is doing 50% off Shared / Reseller / VPS first month. Coupon code: NOSOPA
Name Cheap has a "special discount deal": BYEBYEGD
DreamHost use NOTOSOPA you get your first registration free.

I can't claim credit for this, all came from Reddit

Name.com has a page where they talk about how they don't support SOPA, but "calls on Congress to search for a new way to protect intellectual property rights." So they sound like they'd support alternate legislation that is slightly changed (like OPEN), but honestly almost as bad.

Be aware that many registrars may just be trying to steal business from Go Daddy, and are just pretending to be against SOPA in order to do so. It would be wise to research the policies of these companies before just going for the coupons.

Use "NODADDY" a Name.com for 10% off transfer ins (COM, NET, ORG, TV, INFO, IN, US, CO, ME & TEL) and also receive 40% off any hosting plans.
HostGator is doing 50% off Shared / Reseller / VPS first month. Coupon code: NOSOPA
Name Cheap has a "special discount deal": BYEBYEGD
DreamHost use NOTOSOPA you get your first registration free.

I can't claim credit for this, all came from Reddit

http://hostgator.com/

They offer great hosting and domain management with support for everything you'd ever need, even with shared hosting. Technical support is also great and instantaneous.

Use coupon code nosopa25percent for 25% off your entire order as well.

He knows that they want $4 million to keep one website operating for a year, right?
""We need at least another $4 million just to keep USASpending.gov operating this year," the official said. "We are looking at a pass-the-hat approach, but it could be challenging to get that done in time."

$4 million to keep a website running? I think I see the problem, that's at least double or even triple what average hosting fees are.

And there is NO shared web host offering the Python 3 Language that I could find in a few minutes of Googling (e.g. python 3 shared web hosting).

Just to give one concrete example to bury this whole line of argument, I have a couple sites on HostGator, one of the larger shared hosting providers around. I don't remember what I pay for them, but it's nothing... $10/month or less. HostGator granted me shell access for free; all they requested was a copy of my photo ID. Logging into my server just now, I can see that they have Python 2.4.3 and Python 2.7 installed. The default if I just type "python" is Python 2.4.3. There's also a symbolic link called "python2.6" that links to Python 2.7. A quick search of the customer support forums reveals that they will install Python 3 for you if you ask, but that they recommend you stick with 2.x for Web development because most of the popular modules and packages (Django, for instance) don't work properly yet with Python 3.

Honestly, at this stage you are not going to have any trouble getting support for the version of Python you need on any reputable hosting provider.

SPF has been around for at least a couple of years, but at least one very large hosting provider - hostgator.com - hasn't made it any easier to implement. They still require that you email them and request that they set it up for you.

http://forums.hostgator.com/custom-mx-and-spf-records-t58820.html

It's *extremely* messy cleaning up after a security screwup like this.

One day, Hostgator decided that they'd grown to the point that they were likely to have at least one disgruntled ex-employee - and one was under suspicion given his behavior at a later job. All employees had access to the plaintext passwords of all customers. So they decided to email every customer something that looked identical to a phishing scam, instructing them to click the link and change their password if they ever wanted to access their account again. Then, they made a random alphanumeric password generator, and put a filter so that the user couldn't create a password using common english words. Then, they cut everybody off from their accounts - resellers, dedicated servers, everybody.

Hostgator was considered one of the best of the independent budget webhosts up to this point. After the crisis died down, I suspect they lost a significant fraction of the business they'd acquired in six years of operation over the course of a week. A publicly traded company which is heavily leveraged would have completely folded if a third of their customers dried up overnight... which should scare you. Hostgator was honest and publicly, rightly paranoid about its problems, and if they could have handled it a lot better(pushing passwords downstream automatically, for example), you have to wonder how often large businesses are simply ignoring this kind of thing as operational and career suicide.

http://forums.hostgator.com/forced-password-update-t33170.html?s=28691c684f9a81c71418d734953afc59&t=33170

Personally, it pushed me to try out a password/keyring app called KeePass, which I've stuck to since on computers I own.

A coal mine underground has been burning for decades. http://www.offroaders.com/album/centralia/Johnathan_F_Beltz.htm

http://suspended.hostgator.com/?domain=www.offroaders.com Congrats. You took down a hobbyists' forum less than a week into the month. [I'm not sure if a smilie or a frown belongs here.]

Yahoo's move is the inevitable endgame in an ongoing arms race between major shared hosting firms, who have been super-sizing the disk space and data transfer on their accounts for two years. Here's the larger question: Is this just a marketing gimmick; a bright shiny "UNLIMITED" bauble to dangle in front of small business folk? Or is it an effective way to attract customers from HostGator who find that 1,000 gigs of disk space is simply not enough? Almost nobody needs this, but some might be influenced by it.

I have a few sites hosted through HostGator running php 4.4.4 as an Apache module. Recently they "upgraded" to phpsuexec 4.4.4 which runs as cgi. They are touting it as more secure and reliable bla bla bla.

Well it broke http authentication on a few pages which ruined my day.

Changelist here http://forums.hostgator.com/showthread.php?s=1f606 f88e85e97402645b68bd0dc1be8&t=8822

Maybe it would have been better to upgrade to PHP5.

I don't understand the suggestion. Does Registry Rocket register domains?

This Registry Rocket?

"RegistryRocket is a customizable e-commerce web page. It is designed as a tool for you to sell domain names. You give your site a name, upload a logo (or not), and set the pricing. We take care of the website hosting, merchant processing and other eNom services. Track sales and watch your account balance grow in your eNom reseller account.Whether this is your permanent e-commerce solution fordomain name sales, or an interim option until you have your own merchant account established, RegistryRocket works."

RegistryRocket.com gives an error message.

Registry Rocket - Free Domain Reselling?

Old link now locked. New link: http://forums.hostgator.com/showthread.php?p=36448

Discussion on the hosting company's (HostGator) support forum: http://forums.hostgator.com/showthread.php?t=10928

In hostgator's defense, they do have a good security team and this had nothing to do with ftp. It's interesting to read through the following thread to see how they were handling the problem:
http://forums.hostgator.com/showthread.php?t=10928

I'm a customer whose site didn't have problems, but I am satisfied with how they got on this problem. Not perfect, but definetly good. Of course when I read this headline I was shitting bricks for a moment or two.