Re: PHP web sites references

In article <[email protected]> , [email protected]
(Damien Seguy) wrote:
>This list will gather any web site of importance, so as to show that PHP
>is also used for successful firms, and not only for personal pages.
>
>For every web site, we should gather those data :
>Web site name
>company name
>URL
>country
>industry sector (such as retails, car, space industry, movie...)


I only know for certain that some companies were on the list, and then were
not, and they didn't get any smaller or stop using PHP or anything, and that
some on the list would specifically ask to not have a hot-link, and that the
list used to be there, and is now gone.  The rest of this is pure
speculation.

!!! SPECULATION !!!

I suspect that, over time, some web-sites that were on this high-profile
list were getting a fair amount of attempted hacker traffic from
script-kiddies and pros who were targeting known PHP installation issues and
the one(1) security flaw (fixed) to date...  Probably not many succeeded in
attacks, but even just the excess traffic/bandwidth was probably outrageous.

Thus, after being on the high-profile list for awhile, a company's IT guy
would ask to be removed, and...

The maintenance of this list from listees who decided it was not such a Good
Idea after all, and soothing the ruffled feathers of the "not quite
prime-time" was probably a great deal more effort than it's really worth.

If you can compile and maintain such a list with permission from the URL
destinations to be posted on php.net, and continue to maintain that
headache, perhaps it would come back to life, though...

!!! END SPECULATION !!!

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