Recommendations can be dangerous

  • leninkster

    (@leninkster)


    5 years, 4 months ago

    Allowing providers to supply their own copy in a recommendation is an exceedingly dangerous practice. For example: Bluehost
    “Powering over 2 million websites, Bluehost offers the ultimate WordPress platform. Tuned for WordPress, we offer WordPress-centric dashboards and tools along with 1-click installation, a FREE domain name, email, FTP, and more. Easily scalable and backed by legendary 24/7 support by in-house WordPress experts.”

    Any business hosting service, that as part of their “Safer, Faster, Simpler, Bigger” offering, supports their platform with outdated and unsupported end-of-life products such as PHP5.4 and PHP 5.6 or beta release products (also end of life) like PHP 7.0, when many plugins demand PHP 7.1+ really should be “recommended”

    Security very much depends upon being able to patch the underlying platform to the latest level of supported software (or at least a supported version). Performance and functionality depend upon the same. When a hosting provider markets one thing, but means something else, as a developer, I would steer very clear of recommending them. Once you understand what they are really providing, steering clear of them completely is probably worth thinking about.

    The same goes for other hosting providers that choose to run obsolete and therefore likely vulnerable platforms.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    5 years, 4 months ago

    That copy was approved — there’s a team that works with hosting companies. Why do they maintain old versions of PHP? I suppose to minimize problems with “forced” upgrades from older plugins and themes.

    As a dev, if you put a client on their hosting, I expect you’d set them up to the latest supported version of PHP.

    Because topics about hosting companies usually quickly turn into spamfests, I’m going to close this one.

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