RLJ Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 Hi all, This is probably a very basic question, but it has recently come to my attention that the support team of the webhost that is hosting my website+database (shared hosting) can create a new user with full privileges and access my database. Is this normal? Seems like a bit of a security gap... Can I prevent this? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanfilard Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 The web host can get to your database. If you have passwords you should encrypt them. What host do you use? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLJ Posted June 20, 2011 Author Share Posted June 20, 2011 Yeah passwords are encrypted, but I would rather not that the webhost can access any information stored in the database. Is there any way of preventing this? The webhost that I am using is iPage (www.ipage.com). Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryanfilard Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 I don't think you can block them because they have access to your server. Maybe someone else knows a way around that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted June 20, 2011 Share Posted June 20, 2011 If you really have these types of concerns don't use shared web hosting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMcHarg Posted June 21, 2011 Share Posted June 21, 2011 Yea, this would be kind of like the landlord of the house you're renting not having a key. They probably won't come in without your permission but you wouldn't leave your magazine collection just lying around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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