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SSL security and PHP


tlelliott77

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Hi all

 

I'm in the process of choosing a new hosting company and have I'm a bit confused about how the secure server needs to be set up.

 

The company I'd like to change to is called webfusion.co.uk, mainly because they have been recommended to me as having excellent customer support. However, looking through their support pages they say:

 

Does the shared secure server (secure-websites.com) support PHP or ASP?

We have only implemented CGI scripting functionality, therefore PHP and ASP is not supported on the secure-websites.com area.

 

Our standard production servers do allow ASP and PHP which can be integrated with your own secure certificate.

Please contact our sales team for more information.

 

Now I'm not sure if that means I won't be able to access OSC pages via their shared secure server or not.

 

Speaking to the support team they tell me that if I access pages on the normal server via SSL they won't be secure - but surely that's what we all do with OSC. They reckon you need to upload all secure pages onto the secure server (i.e. 2 different upload places for seure / non-secure pages).

 

Can anyone advise me on this?

Does anyone else use webfusion (or hosteurope.com) successfully with OSC.

 

Thanks

Tim

Posted

It sounds as though they aren't what you'd require...if they can't run the PHP on the server with the secure certificate it probably won't work.

 

I'd question a company that lags behind on their servers to begin with anyway.

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we use hosteurope

they are not great, their support is not always that helpful

we do have ssl though

although we have a dedicated server so this may be why

we upload all files to the usual ftp place and these can only be accessed through https:// (we have inputted some code that redirects you if you go to http://)

 

try DSVR for hosting-i think they are better

always here to offer some useless advice....

Posted

Thanks for the comments. DSVR may be good but are very expensive by the looks of things.

 

Anyone else with any recommendations?

 

Thanks

Tim

Posted

i use namehog (www.namehog.net) to host my own website

they run php on all packages (inc cheapest one) but you need the second cheapest if you want mysql to go with it.

they are ok and the support is generally helpful

not sure about ssl though as i do not have a need to use it so have never enquired

i definately advise against hosteurope though ;)

always here to offer some useless advice....

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