Hi, i posted a similar message to this in running a webhosting biz and got no reply.

I want to know what sort of scripts you allow your customers to run and what sort are banned

on my *Cough cough* "hosting service" that some of my friends and I run (they have a cable connection and a linux box, and i actually do all thew ork) we allow "customers" (guys at school that pay us money for god knows what) to run anything that doesn't access parts of the system other than the /home directory, where all the web stuff is, plus scripts that modify the server or server settings. Most of this is done by just making a new user for perl/php to run off of, then restrict everything else from them. Theres probably another way, but these guys dont even know what perl or PHP is, for the most part, and so I'm not too concerned.

ANyways, heres what I'm saying: let them run anything that doesn't damage the system or drain resources. How to do this? Wrong forum to ask that in.

~{SkiE}~

I think almost any host will allow any kind of scripts, except:

- mass spamming scripts, exploits and other abusive scripts
- scripts that use more than certain amount of server resources (bandwidth, memory, or CPU)