Posted by Richard Lynch on 04/12/05 01:48

On Sun, April 10, 2005 10:55 am, zini10 said:
> Thought about that, but its a free host that will host many many users.ill
> prefer them to have low cpu usage limit also if the system is free of
> tasks
> as that will never happen.
> any user can come, prepare a script which will do a infinite loop and will
> make the server slow for all other users.
> thought about timeouts but the user can refresh and refresh the page for
> ever.
> the only idea other than limit cpu usage is to check for users which use
> to
> much cpu power for too long, and block them for running any script at all,
> but an "Evil" user can signup many many times.

Giving all and sundry un-trusted users access to PHP is akin to passing
out free loaded hand-guns to every gang-banger, convicted criminal, and
child under the age of 12.

Don't do that. :-|

Not everybody is as nice as you. Sorry.

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