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More importantly, Referer can be used to make sure users aren't coming from *other* sites, to prevent cross-site scripting. For example:

http://www.your-site.com/do_action.php?action=dele te_all_my_stuff

Check the referer. It's not your-site.com? Don't delete all my stuff.

Without the trailing slash, Apache might redirect so the browser knows that it is in a directory (making relative links work).

If http://www.mozilla.org/projects didn't redirect you to http://www.mozilla.org/projects/ , the relative links would not work as the link "seamonkey/" would link you to http://www.mozilla.org/seamonkey/ (doesn't work) instead of http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/ (which works). So, the redirect itself is fine.

The problem, however, is that Apache has to redirect with a full URL, including host name. A detault Apache uses its own ServerName (which might be some wacky, irrelevant name) instead of the name that the client requested in the Host header. This could make http://www.your-site.com/images redirect to http://mybrandnewcomputer/images/ which might not be desired.

This behaviour can be changed by setting UseCanonicalName to Off instead of (the default) On. That might solve your problem.

I personally think that UseCanonicalName should be Off per default since it mainly causes confusion otherwise (and a user has to know about HTTP and/or logic for redirection and the process of constructing an URL for debugging this problem).

In the same price range is your-site.com. They charge $60 a year and have provided me excellent service. You can get your raw access logs and they run stat software called Urchin on them for you. They also offer a shell account (Solaris) and you run your own stat software. (I use The Webalizer.)

I think they are mostly Covad partners... some of the business ones are probably Rhythms though since they do business, not really consumer... it wouldn't make sense to list Northpoint ones any more now would it and those are the only three options other than the telcos?

I think webhostingmenu.com has some pretty good deals. I think the Thinkhost at $10/mn is really good. I am a bit wary of the $5/mn of your-site.com because that is so cheap.

After an extensive search in Usenet and on the Web for a low-cost but still good site hosting service, I settled upon Your-Site. It's a "build your own plan" service at which you can accept a pretty decent set of services for $60 per year prepaid or $7 per month non-prepaid (50M disk space with a charge of $0.10 per month for each extra megabyte, 6G transfer exclusive of FTP and email with a charge of $3 per extra gigabyte in any month you exceed the limit, 25 POP3 accounts with a charge of $0.50 per extra POP3 account, PHP/Perl/C/Python CGI-BIN functionality).

I've been a tad busy and haven't been paying close attention per se to the three sites I'm building there as time permits, but haven't noticed especial problems. People who made comments about Your-Site in Usenet (that I saw) seemed happy with the service when I did the heavy research a couple of months ago, and I didn't see any negative comments about Your-Site (which is mildly significant all by itself, probably). The folks at Your-Site have been responsive to my concerns as well, and I have no worries about them.

To judge from an absurd amount of looking into alternatives, I'd hazard a firm guess that Your-Site is offering about the best deal you'll get from a low-cost site hosting service without running into problems from bottom-feeders out to make a buck without bothering to actually deliver on their promises, or problems with all sorts of limits on what you can do. I haven't tried the site hosting service mentioned by another poster here, "PHP Web Hosting", but that was another place on my very short list of top candidates at the end just before making a final decision. They do charge more at $9.95 per month, but more features are included up-front in the basket, and it may be a better deal for your needs, depending on what exactly you wish to do. This would be my next choice after Your-Site, and very probably my first choice if I needed "unlimited" disk space or POP3 accounts.

YMMV, naturally. :)

After an extensive search in Usenet and on the Web for a low-cost but still good site hosting service, I settled upon Your-Site. It's a "build your own plan" service at which you can accept a pretty decent set of services for $60 per year prepaid or $7 per month non-prepaid (50M disk space with a charge of $0.10 per month for each extra megabyte, 6G transfer exclusive of FTP and email with a charge of $3 per extra gigabyte in any month you exceed the limit, 25 POP3 accounts with a charge of $0.50 per extra POP3 account, PHP/Perl/C/Python CGI-BIN functionality).

I've been a tad busy and haven't been paying close attention per se to the three sites I'm building there as time permits, but haven't noticed especial problems. People who made comments about Your-Site in Usenet (that I saw) seemed happy with the service when I did the heavy research a couple of months ago, and I didn't see any negative comments about Your-Site (which is mildly significant all by itself, probably). The folks at Your-Site have been responsive to my concerns as well, and I have no worries about them.

To judge from an absurd amount of looking into alternatives, I'd hazard a firm guess that Your-Site is offering about the best deal you'll get from a low-cost site hosting service without running into problems from bottom-feeders out to make a buck without bothering to actually deliver on their promises, or problems with all sorts of limits on what you can do. I haven't tried the site hosting service mentioned by another poster here, "PHP Web Hosting", but that was another place on my very short list of top candidates at the end just before making a final decision. They do charge more at $9.95 per month, but more features are included up-front in the basket, and it may be a better deal for your needs, depending on what exactly you wish to do. This would be my next choice after Your-Site, and very probably my first choice if I needed "unlimited" disk space or POP3 accounts.

YMMV, naturally. :)

After an extensive search in Usenet and on the Web for a low-cost but still good site hosting service, I settled upon Your-Site. It's a "build your own plan" service at which you can accept a pretty decent set of services for $60 per year prepaid or $7 per month non-prepaid (50M disk space with a charge of $0.10 per month for each extra megabyte, 6G transfer exclusive of FTP and email with a charge of $3 per extra gigabyte in any month you exceed the limit, 25 POP3 accounts with a charge of $0.50 per extra POP3 account, PHP/Perl/C/Python CGI-BIN functionality).

I've been a tad busy and haven't been paying close attention per se to the three sites I'm building there as time permits, but haven't noticed especial problems. People who made comments about Your-Site in Usenet (that I saw) seemed happy with the service when I did the heavy research a couple of months ago, and I didn't see any negative comments about Your-Site (which is mildly significant all by itself, probably). The folks at Your-Site have been responsive to my concerns as well, and I have no worries about them.

To judge from an absurd amount of looking into alternatives, I'd hazard a firm guess that Your-Site is offering about the best deal you'll get from a low-cost site hosting service without running into problems from bottom-feeders out to make a buck without bothering to actually deliver on their promises, or problems with all sorts of limits on what you can do. I haven't tried the site hosting service mentioned by another poster here, "PHP Web Hosting", but that was another place on my very short list of top candidates at the end just before making a final decision. They do charge more at $9.95 per month, but more features are included up-front in the basket, and it may be a better deal for your needs, depending on what exactly you wish to do. This would be my next choice after Your-Site, and very probably my first choice if I needed "unlimited" disk space or POP3 accounts.

YMMV, naturally. :)