Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

[Laird Popkin <laird () pando com>]

Normal hosting facilities let you do pretty much anything you want, unless you start causing problems for the ISP or 
their customers. You pay them to provide bandwidth, space, power and cooling.

There are more restrictions for shared virtual sites (i.e. the $10/month web sites). Usually they just let you upload 
PHP and HTML pages and access a MySQL database. But, as Brandon pointed out, even they usually let you do basic things 
in PHP such as sending email.

- Laird Popkin, CTO, Pando Networks
  mobile: 646/465-0570

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith () gmail com>
To: "Nathan Ward" <nanog () daork net>
Cc: "nanog" <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 1:45:03 AM (GMT-0500) America/New_York
Subject: Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)

On 6/23/08, Nathan Ward <nanog () daork net> wrote:
> Do 'normal' web hosting providers allow customer created scripts to create
> TCP sessions out to arbitrary things?

Doesn't PHP provide a fair amount of TCP functionality that can be used
simply by uploading the code you need to your shared web hosting account?

-brandon