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Testing it with stevie.heliohost.org:2082 and cpanel.<username>.heliohost.org both resulted in code editor working fine for me without any errors. Perhaps there was just a high server load at the time causing problems?

No problem. Abusing the server intentionally to cause slow performance and downtime. A better question is why would a single user go to such great lengths to do this? What is the point? What does it accomplish?

Stevie wasn't actually down; he just had high load from someone using too much space in /tmp. A single account was using 92% of the available space in /tmp and that account has been suspended now. We can manually empty /tmp as much as we want, but if we don't suspend the account that is causing the issues it doesn't take very long for it to get filled back up again.

Is there any particular reason you two are double posting the survey thing? @wizard, if you want you can save some time by using the multi-moderate dropdown box in the bottom left side of the screen to select "Problem Solved." It renames the thread to start with [solved] and posts the feedback thing. @tjoene, if you're just wanting the thread to say [solved] when on forum view you should have access enough as a moderator to edit the topmost topic of the thread and change the title to start with [solved] @everyone else, we're really not that adamant that you take the survey. If you want to let us know how we're doing the survey is a great way to do so. If you don't have time; no big deal.

I have recently been adjusting and monitoring the sign-ups as well, and can verify that hundreds of new accounts get created successfully on a daily basis. Occasionally there is some hiccup in the system and we do shut down new account creations, but that is not the case now. Don't forget your best friend when trying to create a new account: http://byrondallas.heliohost.org/helio/sign-up.php

Because if Big Bangs have been happening forever, that it would take forever for our Big Bang to have happened I should have known better than try to logically discuss anything. I usually have better sense than to respond to anything involving religion. Thank you for the booster shot in my philosophy of "ignoring it until it goes away."

It's loading fine for me right now. If it's consistent for you always showing 500 error try clearing your cache. While we're on the topic, I have noticed that your site is usually one of the highest load accounts on the server and usually very close to getting suspended for causing too much load. You might want to consider restricting the IPs that can access your page or something else creative to reduce load if you wish to continue hosting your site on our servers.

Wait, security? I always thought he was the guy that made sure the ballpoint and fountain pens actually wrote before they were put in packages and shipped!? Sooooo confused...

When you try to open scp-hk.com it shows queued because your account no longer exists. Most likely it was deleted due to inactivity. If you don't log in to your cPanel account at least once every 30 days your account gets marked inactive and you get a warning email. If you still fail to log in for another 7 days your account is deleted to make room for active users. Feel free to create a new account and restore your website from any backups you may have of it. We keep no backups of any users data once their account has been deleted.

Your account has been created, but it will take another ~24 hours before you can view the pages. Feel free to log into cPanel or begin uploading your files.

You could, theoretically, try to park any domain that exists or doesn't exist. To make it fairly simple, it's the registrar settings that matter. If you have the registrar nameservers set to ns1.heliohost.org and ns2.heliohost.org then when someone tries to access that domain the DNS system knows to come to our servers to look for the data. If you switch the nameservers for that same domain to some other service, you don't even have to do anything on our servers. Even if we have records for it it won't matter because our servers won't ever receive a request for it. If you switch a parked domain from stevie account to johnny account you will have to delete it from the stevie account first otherwise it will say that someone already has that configured when you try to set it up on johnny. I could go try to add google.com as a parked domain on my account as much as I want, but it's never going to change anything on the internet as long as I don't have access to the account that registered it. How about an analogy? I make a town in a world where there can only be one town of each name. I decide to name it Chicago even though Chicago already exists. I can name my city Chicago, but the street signs all point the way to the real Chicago so no one will ever drive to my city thinking it is the real Chicago because I can't change all the signs on all the streets. Likewise, if I decide to move my city I don't actually have to change the name of the original location. I just need to change all the street signs and everyone that is looking for my city name will follow the signs to where they are supposed to be.

No, there is no rush. I just removed the blocks that may have prevented you from creating a second account. Once you create your second account on johnny you will be blocked from creating a third account. As long as you don't create your second account it's not like it's going to time out or anything. You can use this tool to monitor when sign-ups reset and whether they are currently available. http://helio.byrondallas.heliohost.org/sign-up.php Johnny is a more unstable server because he provides .NET and some other services that tend to use more load or may crash occasionally. Most people only need php and mysql so the warning is there to encourage people who only need basic services to create their account on the more stable stevie server. Feel free to take a look at our monitor and compare the stevie to johnny. http://heliohost.grd.net.pl/monitor/ This is also why we first suggested creating a parked/addon domain on your current stevie account to host the second website. Each account has 500mb capacity which is more than enough to host several different sites. More information can be found on our wiki article: http://wiki.helionet.org/Parked,_Addon_and_Sub_Domains

I would recommend against PMing though probably. If you PM an admin only the one admin sees it, but if you make a forum post ALL of the admins can see it. Furthermore, I know some admins just ignore PMs unless they specifically ask someone to PM them something.

You can always ask whatever you want. Worst case scenario: We just say no, laugh at the request, or simply ignore you. Yeah, I can't really think of anything off the top of my head. Maybe someone else can come up with something.

Yes, that would be very kind of you. Seeing as how one of the sites is not even mine, I'll just be making it for the organisation. Ok, you may now create an account on johnny. Just make sure you use a different email address than you used to create your stevie account.

Actually your account would be suspended and all your data and databases would still exist. You just get locked out and any visitors to your site see the suspended message. If that happens post here and we will unsuspend your account after you make a plan to use less system resources the next time around. I would be fine with unsuspending that person that was using 64% of the /tmp if they made changes too. Anyways, here is what your account did yesterday: xoviat scrabblefreak.heliohost.org CPU:0.01 MEM:0.24 PROC:0.0 In comparison the highest CPU number was 1.32, the highest MEM was 119.52 and the highest PROC was 1.6 so you're well under the limits. Obviously we can't really tell you how much load that will put if you get more users, but maybe you can remember how much use the site got yesterday and scale it yourself? You're sitting at 0,0,0 so far today.

I just verified that all of your addon/parked domains are still listed in the system. The problem is they aren't currently displaying in cpanel and they can't be modified and effects all accounts on stevie. Follow Tjoene's link to see the progress on that issue. The 500 errors were probably because of hitting the process limit by doing all the cpanel and email processes all at once.

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Thanks, but I was mainly just trying to show that the command wouldn't run as an admin account, nor would it run with a regular sudo.

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http://wiki.helionet.org/What_is_HelioHost%3F I don't know a lot of the really early history since I haven't been around that long myself, but I suspect that a lot of the start up costs were straight out of djbob's pocket and donations that he got from various places. Heliohost is actually self sustaining at this point off ad revenue alone of ads on helionet.org and heliohost.org. Obviously we don't force users to have ads on their pages or anything tacky like that. Some steps we're working towards in the future is separating the heliohost finances from djbob's personal finances and applying for official non-profit status. I'd say the biggest money saver for heliohost is that all of the admins are volunteers and are unpaid for what they do. Payroll is pretty much always the biggest chunk of the money for most businesses. Too much information? Simpler version: How does heliohost work? Answer: Magic.

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Um, why? It's just a random theory. Obviously there is no way to know for sure how everything works. That's why it's so much fun to make up theories creating a *possible* explanation for the (currently) explainable. This is the history of everything we know as a sentient species. There was a time in history where we didn't understand lightning so primitive humanity accredited it to angry gods throwing thunderbolts around and judging "bad" people. There was a time where we didn't understand the night sky so we made up theories about the Earth being at the center of a crystalline shell rotating around us and the stars were the souls of our heroic dead or whatever. As soon as we discover the way things actually work these old silly theories are discarded and they live on as interesting myths (if they live on at all.) Ok, you're welcome to make up your own theories just as I did, but in my theory each big bang to big contract cycle is a finite amount of time. It may be several trillion years or whatever but it is finite, and it does eventually repeat. Are you saying then that since each big bang to big contract cycle is infinite already there can't be more than one cycle? That's correct because infinity is immeasurable and infinity plus infinity is undefinable just as you can't divide by zero. Maybe to become a god an entity simply needs to develop enough technology or whatever to escape the death/rebirth process and travel in some high tech ship or state of consciousness outside the grasp of the crushing gravitational forces drawing all the matter and energy in the universe down to single point? If they were evolved enough to accomplish that I would say "god" is a good word to describe something so awe-inspiring. Anyways, it's all just a silly theory. I suspect that when we actually find out the truth (if we survive long enough) it will be unlike pretty much anything we have managed to imagine.