Pre Sales Questions

[bignose]

Some questions about your hosting service:

My existing hosting agreement expires in May and I would like to cutover
smoothly without modifying my software greatly.

1) Do you have Perl, with common modules modules including DB_file or NDBM_file?

2) Is the crontab managable and updateable by me?

3) Is Perl restricted to cgi-bin or can it run from elswhere?

4) I have around 50 Users per week logging in via .htaccess (plesk version).
There are about 6 levels of access and the way I control this is with different
directories for each function. Eg dir names are = admin, manager, committee,
news roster and so on. These are under the httpdocs dir not cgi-bin. None of
them are actually named cgi-bin and all contain several perl/cgi programs.

Will this work OK on your servers or are there restrictions preventing this??.

5) Does Cpanel have a frontend for .htaccess like Plesk does or do I need to
use native .htaccess.??

[Jonathan]

1) Perl? Yes; as for the modules, I have no idea
as I do not use a single Perl/CGI script.

2) If you mean can you set crons then manage them,
like deleting or adding new cron jobs, then yes.

3) Not sure.

4) See #3

5) cPanel does have a 'Password Protect Directory' function
which I found to be similiar to the one in Emiso if I remember correctly.

It may be named 'Web Protect' or 'Password Protect Directory/Folder'
depending on the cPanel skin you use for that account.

[Frank Hagan]

I'll answer what I can, but some of the questions will take Andrew's expertise to answer for sure.

1) Do you have Perl, with common modules modules including DB_file or NDBM_file?

2) Is the crontab managable and updateable by me?

3) Is Perl restricted to cgi-bin or can it run from elswhere?

1) and 3) Perl is available, and .pl and .cgi programs can run from any directory. All the common modules are available. The installed Perl modules on my server include NDBM_file, but I don't see DB_file on the list.

2) crontab can be managed by you, with either the Cpanel "easy mode" or the more direct Linux command mode.

4) I have around 50 Users per week logging in via .htaccess (plesk version).
There are about 6 levels of access and the way I control this is with different
directories for each function. Eg dir names are = admin, manager, committee,
news roster and so on. These are under the httpdocs dir not cgi-bin. None of
them are actually named cgi-bin and all contain several perl/cgi programs.

Will this work OK on your servers or are there restrictions preventing this??.

5) Does Cpanel have a frontend for .htaccess like Plesk does or do I need to
use native .htaccess.??

4) Do you mean that they access the server directly via SSH? Or are you giving them access to certain directories via their web browser by using passwords stored in .htaccess? Andrew would have to answer the first situation, as I think there might be a problem with 50 users with shell-type access. But if its just password protected directories they access with their web browsers, that is do-able. There is easy set up within Cpanel for it.

5) Cpanel does have an editor for .htaccess, but some of us have found it better to edit locally and FTP the new file up. If you add password protection to a directory, the Cpanel routine does it well by adding the appropriate lines to .htaccess (at least in my experience!)

[-Oz-]

I am pretty sure that cgi can be run from anywhere.

[piku]

I am pretty sure that cgi can be run from anywhere.

ditto.