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Originally Posted by ServerGenius
Just a note on virtualhosting.....I never used virtualhosting myself and I'd advice ANYONE to do the same unless it's hobby project not intended to make you any money.
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Hans - you have to do something about your compulsive 'return' key.. unless I fullscreen GFY, your replies look really strange.
Another thing that you slightly touched on for VirtualHosting, but didn't explain, was that not only are you all sharing the same webserver on that machine, most sites are running as the same user.
So, if someone's running WordPress on domainA.com, and it gets hacked. If you're on the same server as domainA.com, there's a very good likelihood that the person who hacked that site will drop things on the server.
One of the most commonalities of that happening is the people finding that their blogs now have <iframe> exploits which installs spyware on the surfer's computer. When this happens, the webmaster has little recourse, as they're on a virtualserver, and as Hans noted, they rarely give a shit.
Even worse, if they do re-image the machine, and the webmaster for domainA.com puts their buggy install back, then it's just a matter of time until they get hacked again, which may start this whole process over.