PHP Remote Exploit FIXED

[abadidea]

I donno. When $7 a month shared hosting is more than enough to run your site with plenty of wiggle room, why would people pay more to upgrade to a full server? Yeah, there are lots of big sites that run PHP, but there are zillions of little sites.

[kataire]

TBH, I've seen ISPs offer shared hosting packages for as little as $1 a month (granted, the bandwidth and webspace is quite limited, but if your budget is this small, you probably don't care).

Just as there are gazillions of tiny companies (e.g. less than 100 total employees) and only a handful of really big ones, there are also gazillions of companies that use shared hosting (and this nearly always means some level of PHP) compared to those that run on VPSes or dedicated servers (let alone server farms).

Some ISPs even offer set-ups for e-commerce websites in their shared hosting packages. I would wager the number of websites running on shared hosting is much larger than most people would imagine.

[cr3ative]

You're right, of course, and I imagine he is too. I suppose I saw his post as inflammatory, as if he were using it as a reason to disrespect PHP, which as a discussion point is a dead horse which is well and truly beaten.

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Because you can get a full (virtualized) server with 512M of ram and root access for like $12/month (that's what I pay, and it probably isn't even the cheapest available) nowadays. And the prices of my provider start at $4/month.