Hosting Company Verification

[Jimmy]

You may think before reading this "oh no another crap suggestion".

I think that the staff should manually approve new hosting company threads. On a competitor site (that is quite small), they moderate and approve hosts, and it's overall a much cleaner section.

So, here's my proposal:
Any requests can be moved to it's own subforum, that requires a "Requesting" prefix.

Then any threads to be marked as "Offering" would go through these steps of verification

• The business must be a legally registered business and that business registration information must be displayed on the business website.

• The business website must have a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

• The business website and control panels must follow security best practices, connections must be secured.

• All software used by the business must be registered to the business where applicable.

• Representatives of the business must not have a history of rule violations.

I think this would stop the "half developed" companies from clogging up the Hosting Section.

Post your thoughts!

 

[Kiwi]

Not that easily. You wouldn't be seeing hundreds of companies using it if it was extremely vulnerable to attacks such as SQL injection.

Most hosts use it, yes, most hosts have also had multiple database leaks on both sets of software. You have to secure it after the initial install as the standalone program isn't as secure as it truly should be.

 

[Kiwi]

You may think before reading this "oh no another crap suggestion".

I think that the staff should manually approve new hosting company threads. On a competitor site (that is quite small), they moderate and approve hosts, and it's overall a much cleaner section.

So, here's my proposal:
Any requests can be moved to it's own subforum, that requires a "Requesting" prefix.

Then any threads to be marked as "Offering" would go through these steps of verification

• The business must be a legally registered business and that business registration information must be displayed on the business website.

• The business website must have a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

• The business website and control panels must follow security best practices, connections must be secured.

• All software used by the business must be registered to the business where applicable.

• Representatives of the business must not have a history of rule violations.

I think this would stop the "half developed" companies from clogging up the Hosting Section.

Post your thoughts!

I'd agree but your points aren't the best. Here's some counter statements:

The business website must have a Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

These are fantastic resources as a client but in all seriousness, they're not the biggest influence a host uses. 95% of people just click "I Agree" to the ToS and don't think twice about what they say.

The business website and control panels must follow security best practices, connections must be secured.

If you're regarding SSL, you're only half way there. Yes, SSL certs are fantastic, can't deny that except they aren't everything. Properly securing your hardware and hiding directories in addition, this is what should truly be mentioned and enforced.

Representatives of the business must not have a history of rule violations.

Way to discriminate, this is absolutely the stupidest thing I've read all day. Almost everyone on this website has at least 1 warning.[DOUBLEPOST=1464696959][/DOUBLEPOST]

So what else could even be done? I can't think of a whole lot.

Just properly secure everything and hope for the best, eventually you should invest in custom security measures or heavily modify some of the exploits.

 

[Ajdin]

I like it! Although, regarding registered companies, it isn't hard to register one, especially considering most are just fine with an LLC

This is very untrue. The world is much bigger than just the UK and US. In Belgium for example, you require a starting capital of almost €18000 in most cases and firm types.


I don't like this suggestion. Other forums have done this before so we should do it too? Yeah, except those other forums don't have hundreds of hosts and don't have 32k members. I feel like the starting out hosts the also need a oppertunity.