Re: Can anyone recommend a reliable hosting service for web pages?

Hello Jim!

IMHO, it is a gimmick. I have used several hosting services that offer this
as an "extra", and I even played with some for a while, but I found them
cumbersome, and, in some cases, buggy. Perhaps it does help those web
developers that are telnet / ftp challenged, but I honestly don't see where
the advantage is. I'd be curious to know how many of us use hosting
services that offer the web interface, but ignore it.

As to the security issues involved, I would be talking out of school if I
commented on that, so I'll just take your word for it. :-)

In any case, HAPPY HTMLing!

Mike

At 01:20 PM 9/6/00 -0500, Jim Tom Polk wrote:
>I've always wondered this:
>
>How important is it to have a Web Interface to administer a web site?
>The reason I wonder is that I've always considered them a security risk,
>yet every service I see that is boosting their hosting on the Internet
>has some form of a web interface. Is this a gimmick or do people just
>accept the security risks?
>
>later...
>-- 
>
>
>Jim Tom Polk -:- jtpolk(at)texas.net -:- http://camalott.com/~jtpolk/	
>	''You might as well fall flat on your face as 
>	  lean over too far backwards.''      --James Thurber--
>   "The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three 
>          elements: energy, matter and enlightened self-interest." 
> 		- G'Kar  "Survivors"
>
>

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