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If someone else registers the domain for you on their own dot.tk account, you won't have control over it so you cannot renew it when it expires. I just tried registering a random domain on dot.tk (the domain isn't hosted at heliohost or anywhere) but it let me add it. I still think you are trying to use dot tk's dns instead of heliohost. Please empty all fields under 'use dot tk dns', click on 'use my own dns' and enter ns1.heliohost.org there.

Ok, thank you. I PMed you the IP address.

move the contents of /joomla30 to the top folder (/public_html) Then read this for fixing the path. http://docs.joomla.org/Moving_the_site_among_directories/sub-directories

click on "your own dns" first and then enter ns1.heliohost.org and ns2.heliohost.org

I need to contact someone privately about an abuse report. Someone popped up on freenode in heliohost channel and the sent me (and probably everyone a private message). He asked how he can use his website to download (transload) files from other websites like mediafire to his hosting account and then download them from heliohost to his PC. In plain english, he wanted a php script that downloads files from mediafire directly to his heliohost account and then he can download them from heliohost to his PC. He said the files he wants to download to his heliohost account are large. 100+MB. I warned him that this may get him suspended. He said (translated to english) "I opened this hosting account only to host files basically this is free hosting so it's not my problem." The username on #heliohost was called Ezio. I have the IP address he used to connect to freenode but I won't post it here for privacy reasons. PM me please if you want it. I personally didn't want to post here at all but I couldn't find a place to do abuse reports. Please feel free to delete this post in case I should not have posted here in the first place.

google's cache suggests you use simplemachine forums. http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Mail You can switch to smtp (for example, your gmail account SMTP settings) to get around the restriction. However, this won't stop the spam. To disable mail completely you will have to go through smf settings and disable things like email notifications on personal messages, etc... Another thing is since this is a church website and you don't need the bad publicity from spammers anyway, I suggest using cloudflare. It protects your website from spammers and many other attacks. Cloudflare is free. If you decide to use it, let me know on irc and I will walk you through it.

what script do you use? most cms/forums have options to disable email sending.

this is probably the same user from http://www.helionet.org/index/topic/19051-suspended-arestame/page__fromsearch__1 and it is also the same script on his website. I think there is something illegal there. log into a test facebook account and try using the script on his website.

Heliohost is really the only independent free webhost out there and truly the best and most friendly one. I hope this gets fixed eventually

There are from 2010.

He's referring to the renew script here: http://www.heliohost.org/home/support/scripts/renew He didn't get banned from that script. He just couldn't use it because his site was suspended for high load. That script above is to renew your account if you fail to login to your cpanel every 30 days. I meant the facebook bot thing on the website I should have been more clear. sorry.

I noticed a lot of websites get banned for that particular script. What exactly does it do?

You can always use ftp for now. The hostname should be your website address or its IP.

1. People probably use them to get past work or school filter restrictions. That doesn't sound like a nice thing to be doing in the first place. 2. Almost all free web hosting services ban them and claim that they create unnecessary load. 3. There are lots of existing web proxies out there and not everyone needs to create his or her own web proxy. If I'm not making much sense, just ignore me :-)

Why not make a new database, export your old data, and then import it to the new database? then edit the drupal config file to point to new database (sites/default/settings.php)? Drupal should be more than happy with MyISAM. It would be interesting to see if the mysql downtime is actually becoming less or not.

How did you reach http://heliohost.org/heliopanel/home.php ? Was there some link that directed you there? I usually just scroll down on http://heliohost.org and log on. There is a form at the bottom of the page.

A few notes about cloudflare: 1) Cloudflare only caches images/css/js and certain documents like pdf. It does not cache html or dynamic content or anything that sends private headers. 2) By default, it changes the cache time value of any of those objects to 4 hours (regardless if it is 1 minute or 1 year on parent server). 3) It actually works. According to my account there, 2,349 requests saved by CloudFlare 4,572 total requests 4) The basic subscription is free. 5) It protects against DoS attacks. 6) You can add the following code to your script to see the real visitor's IP. if (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"])) { $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"]; On wordpress, just add add_action('init', 'cloudflare_ip',1); function cloudflare_ip() { if (isset($_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"])) { $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = $_SERVER["HTTP_CF_CONNECTING_IP"]; } } to your theme's functions.php file.

Hello. Could you explain how someone could do that? Because there are certain new softwares (joomla, vanilla forums) that cannot be installed without innodb. How would I redirect the installation to db4free? Go to dbfree website, register for a new database. Then in your php script use dbfree mysql server address instead of localhost. Just keep in mind that you are placing your data on a random testing service (dbfree) and therefore there is no guarantee what might happen to your database. If you are using joomla, you might want to use postgresql instead of mysql. It is supported according to joomla system requirements. Another thing is that postgresql is a real open source project with a public source code repository. That means development happens in the open. You can trust it more than mysql which is developed behind closed doors with the occasional release source code tarball.

They wouldn't delete people's innodb tables. It would mean tampering with people's data.

I always used myisam. So if everyone converts to myisam, mysqld stops crashing?

So after today's downtime, my website says: Server load: 1.86, 1.53, 1.34 Before downtime, it was close to: Server load: 70, 60, 50~ish was server restarted? feels faster now

Yes, I know all of that, yashrs. I registered after the issue happened. With all due respect, I would rather hear "I dont see it getting fixed in some days(or even months)" from heliohost staff and not another member but nevertheless, thank you very much for the reply There is no official support for anything other than mysql in wordpress. I tried hacking on the pdo sqlite plugin for wordpress which one of the slackware devs uses. I managed to fix the issue where it won't create tables on installation. I tried it on localhost but it was slow and from my experience, sqlite doesn't scale as much as mysql. The bottlenecks are just too much. I would rather get a direct reply from heliohost staff before pursuing other database storage options like sqlite. An external database means an external connection for each query. Not really a bright idea. It would probably put too much load on Stevie. Edit: I might also consider flatpress.

Regarding the mysql issue on Stevie, it is not improving and today mysql has been down for a cumulative time of over an hour. I don't wish to complain and I understand this is a free service so I can't expect people to get out of their way to fix problems, however, is there anything being done to fix this? Or perhaps is there anything at all that can be done to fix this? Thank you for the friendly service.

You can reactivate other people's accounts?

tpb = the pirate bay?