But then you get into colos, where people are paying good money so they can run whatever they want on the servers they own, but are housed elsewhere. In some cases, the colo also offers a test server for their customers, which may be shared with many other customers. I doubt a customer would intentinally upload a malicious CGI since the colo will undoubtably have a large paper trail leading back to them, but there is plenty of room for ignorance.

The best solution here is to make sure each customer has a firewall covering all their equiptment. However, this may not be economical.

Beware that colos seem prone to great stupidity. In our move to our current colo, they told us we couldn't use SSH on their provided test server because it's "insecure" and we should use FTP instead. (We ended up buying a little more rackspace and a second server for testing so we could at least insulate ourselves from such madness).

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In reply to Re: Re: Re: Matt's scripts strike again by hardburn
in thread Matt's scripts strike again by zentara

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