Re: PHP web sites references

Richard Lynch <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 !!!

if you're speculating why the old sites list was removed, it was removed
because it was unmaintained, hever had any sort of threshold for sites
to be listed so we got frequent requests from little companies to be
listed, and it is a pretty weak form of evangelization.  what you want
are stories about how and why sites chose to use php, not just a list of
sites serving pages with .php extensions.

jim