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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Shared Hosting Sucks
OK, shared hosting doesn't suck, it's just a pain in the ass if you know what you are doing.
I'm an idiot in more ways than I'm willing to list here (there is not enough bandwidth in the world), but I get Web developement.
And shared hosting - with the Control Panels and PHPmyAdmin and so on - sucks for me.
It's harder.
Example: Just loaded an existing CGI (Perl) on site I'm helping get off the ground.
Worked. Until I changed one line of the CGI (I changed the CSS file include).
Boom.
Crash.
Permissions went back to 644 or something (why???).
Many such issues; many such 500 errors (why???) later, resolved, but in a way that makes me go...why was it fixed? Was it just the permissions (UNIX system; always comes down to perms, agreed), or...what???
Bleh.