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Ask Slashdot: Should Hosting Companies Have Change Freezes?
AngryDad writes "Today I received a baffling email from my hosting provider that said, 'We have a company-wide patching freeze and we will not be releasing patches to our customers who utilize the patching portal for the months of November and December.' This means that myself and all other customers of theirs who run Windows servers will have to live with several critical holes for at least two months. Is this common practice with mid-tier hosting providers? If so, may I ask Eastern-EU folks to please refrain from hacking my servers during the holiday season?"
If so, may I ask Eastern-EU folks to please refrain from hacking my servers during the holiday season?
At least 10 countries have just been given the green light for hacking.
Just reply to this message with the IP addresses of any servers you want to make sure will not be hacked and I will make sure the list gets to the right people.
Happy to help.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
The server will be spending 50% of its life rebooting to apply minor updates and install software, reducing the risk of a security breach.
Are you referring to Point of Sale business or Piece of Shit business?
In my experience, they are one and the same.
Of course nobody reads the FAQ! If people read the FAQ, the Questions wouldn't be so Frequently Asked.
Whatever you do, don't take down 216.34.181.45.