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How to explain to my customer that the hosting provider is terrible, security-wise?

As a freelance developer, I sometimes have to access the administration panels of hosting providers of my customers. It is an astonishingly frightening experience. Below are some points I noticed when accessing recently a not-so-unpopular hosting provider based in UK which has the word “secure” mentioned in large on the home page:

How to deploy a single website to multiple physical servers?

Edit: I asked this question 3 or 4 years ago when I was new to web-development, the question looks a bit stupid to me today. I wanted to create a server setup of my own without relying on other hosting providers.
I wanted to delete this question, but it have some nice answers, so I’m leaving it.

Developing on a production server

Today I got yelled at for developing an application on a production server. Quote, “developing on a production server is not acceptable – ever!

Maintain a web application once the only developer is gone

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Web App vs. Desktop App Regarding Deployment

I’m taking on an opportunity for a local business to develop a small, simple timesheet manager (they still record time by hand) and am currently in the planning phases. It will include basic functionality such as managing employee information, logging time worked on a weekly basis for payroll, and generating reports for administration.

Web App vs. Desktop App Regarding Deployment

I’m taking on an opportunity for a local business to develop a small, simple timesheet manager (they still record time by hand) and am currently in the planning phases. It will include basic functionality such as managing employee information, logging time worked on a weekly basis for payroll, and generating reports for administration.

Web App vs. Desktop App Regarding Deployment

I’m taking on an opportunity for a local business to develop a small, simple timesheet manager (they still record time by hand) and am currently in the planning phases. It will include basic functionality such as managing employee information, logging time worked on a weekly basis for payroll, and generating reports for administration.

Node.js on Apache server (Shared Hosting)

I would like to run Node.js/Express as a backend server mainly for handling WebRTC features in my app.
I was just discussing this with my hosting provider and they rejected this request saying that Node.js is heavy and requires Java thus making it impossible to run on Apache so I need to upgrade my account to VPS.