I should have also added the caution ... if you put an email address on your
website, consider to have it be a new email address and only use it for your
website unless you want your personal email to be flooded with more spam.
You might want to create a new personal email address that only
family, friends, and banks use.
Jeff Keller
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:12 PM, List, OM <om-list@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Adding onto what Moose and Scott said ...
>
> I see your web host supports something called "Image Galleries", and
> also "Image Magick", "Wordpress", and "Zen Cart".
>
> You could probably build a very attractive site without learning to deal
> with MySQL, nor hardly any php just by using the applications they already
> support/install for you. The most immediate limitation would be that you
> would likely not be able to test your new web pages without uploading them
> to your server.
>
> I don't recognize "Image Galleries" but the other three are often used by
> web designers to create websites for their clients and are considered
> reasonably easy, quick, and secure ways to create a web site. If you create
> your own website using MySQL you will probably have to study how to make it
> secure from hackers. As soon as your website includes visitor input, hackers
> will start probing it for weaknesses.
>
> When I added a feedback form I saw a steady stream of computer created spam
> being input. When I added a php page I almost immediately saw automated
> attempts to reach both the php and MySQL configuration and admin tools. I
> renamed all of the php pages to a .htm suffix and altered the config to
> treat htm pages as if they were php pages. I still get automated attacks but
> they don't seem to be increasing. The automated hackers will find your
> website before the right people find it. Even if learning about MySQL and
> php is an interesting activity for you, I would still recommend using
> applications if they can do what you want just to avoid the security issues.
>
> Jeff Keller
>
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> My pages are at a site in Singapore which offers a lot of services and the
>> cost is excellent, Cyber Ultra Network. Check it out.
>>
>>
>> Brian Swale.
>>
>
>
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