[NCLUG] webhosting question

[James DeWitt]

Out of curiosity, I went to 

https://www.featureprice.com

To see if they ran a secure server too.  The server certificate it
tried to hand me was apparently self-signed by someone goofing 
around.  It says it was issued by www.snakeoil.dom. 

Fun, but not too professional.

JD


On Tuesday 15 October 2002 04:57 pm, dherr at frii.com wrote:
> I'm looking at webhosting services, and I came across this one:
> http://www.featureprice.com
>
> It looks like a pretty good deal.  I just had one question about security.
> If the only way to upload web pages and database files is via ftp (not
> scp), then isn't the username/password sent in "plain text" over the
> internet? If it is, then how can any of my data be secure?
>
> I called and asked their tech support rep. about this, and he said they
> haven't seen any problems with doing it this way.
>
> Any rebuttals?
>
> Daniel Herrington (dherr at frii.com)
>
>
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