You know you may be using the wrong hosting company when....

ecchi · 2016-03-16, 05:16 PM

I am in the middle of a non-adult project that I did not want hosted on my main server. So I signed up for a small shared hosting account with cPanel. They set up the first domain when I signed up, but I have to use cPanel to set up new domains on the drive. This is a new science to me, and I could not work out how to set up and enable a cgi-bin in a new domain. Google was no help. So I emailed the hosting company and asked them how to set up and activate a cgi-bin on a new domain. They replied:

"Please be more specific. What do you mean by 'CGI-BiN'?"

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Cleo · 2016-03-16, 08:46 PM

Are you sure you didn't end up on Windows hosting?

ecchi · 2016-03-17, 03:33 AM

To be honest, what hosting companies do is a mysterious dark art to me. It could be Windows, I wouldn't know. But then it could be string and wax cylinders, run by a mouse in a wheel, for all I know.

2016-03-16, 05:16 PM	#1
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	You know you may be using the wrong hosting company when.... I am in the middle of a non-adult project that I did not want hosted on my main server. So I signed up for a small shared hosting account with cPanel. They set up the first domain when I signed up, but I have to use cPanel to set up new domains on the drive. This is a new science to me, and I could not work out how to set up and enable a cgi-bin in a new domain. Google was no help. So I emailed the hosting company and asked them how to set up and activate a cgi-bin on a new domain. They replied: "Please be more specific. What do you mean by 'CGI-BiN'?" \|

2016-03-16, 08:46 PM	#2
Cleo Subversive filth of the hedonistic decadent West Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Southeast Florida Posts: 27,936	Are you sure you didn't end up on Windows hosting? __________________ Free Rides on Uber and Lyft Uber Car: uberTzTerri Lyft Car: TZ896289

2016-03-17, 03:33 AM	#3
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	To be honest, what hosting companies do is a mysterious dark art to me. It could be Windows, I wouldn't know. But then it could be string and wax cylinders, run by a mouse in a wheel, for all I know.