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[Steve Holden]

"Bob X" <bobx at linuxmail.org> wrote in message

Can you name a good (reasonably priced) Web Hosting company that supports
Python (either CGI or mod_python)?

See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PythonHosting

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[Afanasiy]

...

I was under the impression mod_python was not safe for shared
environments. If this is true, I don't think you will find a

I'm not aware of such concerns; could you please provide an
URL discussing the issue, or what gave you this impression?

reasonably price host which is also a good host.
If it is not true, I wonder why pair.com will not run mod_python.

No idea, but inertia is often a helpful explanation.

No URL, but you should be able to find one. I just trust pair.

CGI, on the other hand, is CGI. :p

Sure, but that's often not too bad anyway (particularly if you
can run Webware in an external process and just use the CGI
adapter to connect to Webware...).

Yes, CGI is bad. That's what I said. ;p

Alex

This thread seems to have strayed from being helpful, as is common.

[Afanasiy]

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 21:06:10 GMT, "Steve Holden" <sholden at holdenweb.com>

Post by Steve Holden
"Bob X" <bobx at linuxmail.org> wrote in message

Can you name a good (reasonably priced) Web Hosting company that supports
Python (either CGI or mod_python)?

See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/moinmoin/PythonHosting
regards

I was under the impression mod_python was not safe for shared
environments. If this is true, I don't think you will find a
reasonably price host which is also a good host.

If it is not true, I wonder why pair.com will not run mod_python.

CGI, on the other hand, is CGI. :p

[Sheila King]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 09:51:56 GMT, Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in

...

I was under the impression mod_python was not safe for shared
environments. If this is true, I don't think you will find a

I'm not aware of such concerns; could you please provide an
URL discussing the issue, or what gave you this impression?

I believe the concern is that, mod_python runs under the web server's user
ID, whatever that may be. Thus, in a shared environment, user1 running
mod_python and user2 also running mod_python will have the same file
permissions on files created or read by such processes.

This is why PHP has safe_mode.

There are ways around this problem, but they are not easily implemented. In
many cases, hosts run PHP with safe_mode off, and no other security
restrictions in place to protect clients files, not even realizing the
security holes they have in place on their server.

[Alex Martelli]

Afanasiy wrote:
...

I was under the impression mod_python was not safe for shared
environments. If this is true, I don't think you will find a

I'm not aware of such concerns; could you please provide an
URL discussing the issue, or what gave you this impression?

reasonably price host which is also a good host.
If it is not true, I wonder why pair.com will not run mod_python.

No idea, but inertia is often a helpful explanation.

CGI, on the other hand, is CGI. :p

Sure, but that's often not too bad anyway (particularly if you
can run Webware in an external process and just use the CGI
adapter to connect to Webware...).


Alex

[Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy]

More and more hosting companies pop up that offer FreeBSD jail(8) based
"Virtual Servers". You can compile and run anything your heart desires
because you get root access to the "server" and it's reasonably priced.

Grisha

Can you name a good (reasonably priced) Web Hosting company that supports
Python (either CGI or mod_python)?
Bob

[Nicola Larosa]

Post by Gregory (Grisha) Trubetskoy
More and more hosting companies pop up that offer FreeBSD jail(8) based
"Virtual Servers". You can compile and run anything your heart desires
because you get root access to the "server" and it's reasonably priced.

There's even one of those in Italy, with a very good price too:

Areaserver
http://www.areaserver.it/

A direct shell access is very useful to correct a number of system
problems too, apart from programming.

DISCLAIMER: I have no interest nor relationship with Energit, I'm just
a satisfied customer.

[Bob X]

Can you name a good (reasonably priced) Web Hosting company that supports
Python (either CGI or mod_python)?

Bob