Hi sammie. Speaking of dedicated vs shared hosting... I'm not 100% agree with you. I'm on a shared hosting and i use Dolphin on it since 2 years. I don't have problems with it, register globals are off, safe mode also off. Perhaps i should consider myself lucky. And is also cheap, and they also got great support. So, with what unoboonex just said, that means i can sleep well. Both are OFF :) Lucky meee

I agree with Dos and Sammie. I have to say that my experience of being hacked was perhaps a blessing in disguise. I have made some strong alliances and the learning experience in a short period of time could not have been duplicated in any university. I completely wiped out my dolphin sites and reinstalled complete with .htaccess files rebuilt with the suggested security fixes. While this protected my site from the intrusions of the hackers they still continued to pop into my directories attempting see more to wreck havoc on the web, The problem, they were now coming through the shared server I was on that would not turn off the globals. I am now moved (moving) to DosDawgs servers, and although more costly, the hackers and their intrusions have not followed me. Had to be the shared, cheap server, as nothing else changed, did not even do a fresh install simply copied all files and databases over. If this is not effective proof for others on inexpensive shared servers then I do not know what to say, other then enjoy rebuilding. Also, I know long winded here, but I must thank DosDawg and sammie for their help in my time of despair as they both spent time trying to assist me, a lot of time (yes Sammie Dos told me you were working on it too). They did this with out asking for any compensation at all. This dedication and support led me to my decision to switch, and glad I did!