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From: globular on 11 Jan 2010 04:10 Craig Welch wrote: > globular wrote: > >> Wondering how many of the web site hosters allow you to use telnet >> access or something like it to set up scripts, or programs like gnupg. > > I failed to mention the obvious, that we (and most Linux hosts) have gpg > set up as standard. > gnupg was set up but no pgp at all. It was futile expecting to use pgp. I had never heard of gnupg before. There are costs with using pgp aren't there. I once tried using source code of some kind of European RSA or whatever it was. But worried about the proprietary costs coming after me.
From: Rod Speed on 11 Jan 2010 13:48 Craig Welch wrote > Rod Speed wrote >> Craig Welch wrote >>> Jerry wrote >>>> How can I be sure that a web host will not have down time? >>> You can't. All web hosts have down time. Components fail. >> It is however perfectly possible to ensure that component failure isnt visible to users of the system. > That's true for some components. Not all. Its perfectly possible to do it for all with completely dedundant sites etc. > I'll repeat. All web hosts have down time. All. You can repeat that pathetic little mantra till you are blue in the face if you like, its a lie.
From: Rod Speed on 11 Jan 2010 16:06 Craig Welch wrote > Rod Speed wrote >> Craig Welch wrote >>> Rod Speed wrote >>>> Craig Welch wrote >>>>> Jerry wrote >>>>>> How can I be sure that a web host will not have down time? >>>>> You can't. All web hosts have down time. Components fail. >>>> It is however perfectly possible to ensure that component failure isnt visible to users of the system. >>> That's true for some components. Not all. >> Its perfectly possible to do it for all with completely dedundant sites etc. >>> I'll repeat. All web hosts have down time. All. >> You can repeat that pathetic little mantra till you are blue in the face if you like, its a lie. > Please name one that has never had down time. One will do. Irrelevant to what is perfectly possible if they want to do it that expensively.
From: globular on 14 Jan 2010 09:23
Craig Welch wrote: > globular wrote: >> Craig Welch wrote: >>> globular wrote: >>> >>>> Wondering how many of the web site hosters allow you to use telnet >>>> access or something like it to set up scripts, or programs like gnupg. >>> >>> I failed to mention the obvious, that we (and most Linux hosts) have >>> gpg set up as standard. >>> >> gnupg was set up but no pgp at all. It was futile expecting to use pgp. >> I had never heard of gnupg before. There are costs with using pgp >> aren't there. I once tried using source code of some kind of European >> RSA or whatever it was. But worried about the proprietary costs >> coming after me. > > I'm not sure what your issue is. gpg is a free alternative to pgp. > I had no access to pgp when I was looking for something. |