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The following information has been collated by heise Security in August 2007, with the exception of Plus Net which was tested in December 2007.

Package	1&1 Homepage Perfect	all-inkl Privat	Plus Net hosting	Server4u Racer	Strato Powerweb A	secured root server¹
Apache version	1.3.33	2.x²	unknown²	2.0.48	1.3.31	2.2.3
PHP version	4.4.7	4.4.6	4.3.10	4.4.6	4.4.7	5.2.0
Server interface	CGI / suexec	mod_php	CGI / suexec	mod_php	CGI / suexec	CGI / suphp
Suhosin extension	no	yes	no	no	no	yes
PHP privileges	user	server	user	server	user	user
Individual file GID	no	yes	no	no	no	yes
AuthConfig via .htaccess	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes	yes
HTTP-Auth via PHP	no	yes	no	yes	no	yes
PHP-Config via .htaccess	no	yes	no	yes	no	no
own php.ini	yes	no	yes	no	yes	yes
required file access privileges	user	all	user	all	user	user
PHP defaults
allow_url_fopen	on	on	on	on	on	off
disable_functions	no	exec system passthru shell_exec popen escapeshellcmd proc_open proc_nice ini_restore	no	passthru proc_close proc_get_status proc_nice proc_open proc_terminate shell_exec system apache_note apache_setenv closelog debugger_off debugger_on define_syslog_variables openlog syslog popen pclose ini_restore	no	exec system passthru shell_exec popen escapeshellcmd proc_open proc_nice ini_restore
display_errors	on	on	on	off	on	off
open_basedir	no	web home, /tmp, binary directories	no	web home	no	web home
register_globals	on	on	on	on	on	off
safe_mode	off	on	off	off	off	on
¹ only intended as an example for a particularly stringent configuration, Debian-Etch base system² exact version could not be determined