Servage developed a new webhosting Linux distribution
October 23rd, 2008 Posted in englishServageOS is the name of the new linux distribution optimized for the shared hosting provider Servage especially tailored for web hosting. The intent of developing such a distribution is probably because Servage has undergone a long and hard way fighting spam, exploits and bad users defacing other users’ websites but now they seem to care and I really appreciate their step forward to develop their own secure linux distribution but I’m curious if they can afford the development and testing that is involved in such a complex task.
They also even admit that in the past users on the same cluster could affect other users’ websites in a negative way and I really appreciate that as well because they seem to admit their failures.
The distribution itself offers of course more security, better separation of users’ processes so they can find out potential bottlenecks more efficiently and of course separating the users’ processes means no dumb scriptkiddie can deface your website just by cd’ing to your webroot and viewing your script files (for more info on that: http://blog.as.tl/2008/10/15/servage-security-issues/). This appears to be the only specific information on what they’ve added as an extra feature to that distribution.
However, if they now really care about security, it’s a good step forward.
One Response to “Servage developed a new webhosting Linux distribution”
By soopermuse on Oct 24, 2008
As a Servage customer for several years, I have noticed a somewhat decaying environment in their servers, as mentioned here scriptkiddie attacks can be a pain, and servage’s service while offering its customers an excellent package has had its problems, I hope this new OS will sort out these problems.