Additional tweaks to tighten php

July 13, 2008
Filed under PHP, Server Management

Believe me or not, the resource limiting of PHP can also be an enormous security factor.
Take this scenario: Mr. John Hacker managed somehow to upload to your server a script, let’s say an IRC bot which eats up computing power and RAM. Your server became inaccessible due to the running script, who your regular users [...]

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Tightening PHP

July 9, 2008
Filed under Development, PHP

OK, let’s see what’s my point of view on this subject. Please note that nothing I say is a must, probably others would do in another way what I did, many would do things better or less good.
First of all, I would like to say a “thank you” to all of those who I manage [...]

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