A Small Orange -- web hosting / domain registration

[jsw]

Note also that if you ftp, ssh, or telnet to your account, you're "above" the web folder and so can create stuff there which is invisible - period - on the web. For example, if your main account is "emw", and your domain is "emwdomain.com", you can ssh to emwdomain.com and you'll see a folder named "emwdomain.com", which is your webstuff. You'll also see your mail folder, etc.. You can create new directories at this level as well.

 

[neut]

Note also that if you ftp, ssh, or telnet to your account, you're "above" the web folder and so can create stuff there which is invisible - period - on the web. For example, if your main account is "emw", and your domain is "emwdomain.com", you can ssh to emwdomain.com and you'll see a folder named "emwdomain.com", which is your webstuff. You'll also see your mail folder, etc.. You can create new directories at this level as well.

yeah, i get this with ASO too ... root (account) level access is a must.


peace.

 

[rand()]

Actually...

i don't know if this only applies to dreamhost, but when you enable webdav on a directory, you lose ftp access. once I realized that, no WebDAV for me, I'll stick with ftp.

That's a limit of the way both FTP and WebDAV interact with the underlying file system. I believe any host would have to disable one to enable the other - or get tricky with file and user permissions.

It's because WebDAV requires ownership of the files within your WebDAV-shared directory. This forces FTP into essentially a read-only mode, unless you run FTPd as the web server user, or you run it as root with a web server user login.

Even if you configured it that way, you would lose the file-locking advantages of WebDAV - essentially, an FTP user could login and download/upload updated files while somebody else is trying to modify the same files. It would be chaos! Chaos I say!

This makes sense, because FTP is designed to be used by multiple users in the environment of their own accounts, where WebDAV is designed to be one distributed environment for multiple "authors."

-rand()

 

[eclipse525]

I heard that ASO stop taking new customers. Is this true?


~e

 

[edesignuk]

I heard that ASO stop taking new customers. Is this true?


~e

Well it really isn't too hard to find out for yourself - www.asmallorange.com

But anyway, yes, for a time they stopped taking orders while they "re-designed" their business, in terms of how it functions, staff etc, as they'd grown so quickly. However, a quick visit to their site would show that they are now back taking orders, and I still highly recommend anyone uses them.

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[neut]

I heard that ASO stop taking new customers. Is this true?


~e

Im pretty sure they started taking new customers ... don't forget to refer neut.

aso plans


peace.