*THIS DOES NOT EFFECT CURRENT HOSTING ACCOUNTS*

We're in the middle of forum upgrade. Trap17 upgraded to newer IPB version and this took some toll on the database. Newely requested and approved requests are creating hosting account, but the forum is not showing as [HOSTED] group.

If anyone here has activated hosting account from AstaHost but your forum account does not state as HOSTED group, please contact admins immediately. Your account will be terminated in few days so save everything.

AstaHost did not upgrade to the newer version, yet. But just letting you know what might happen during and after the forum upgrade.

Thanks for your patience in advance

Is Astahost still thinking of changing to IPB version? I hope not, it's been nothing but a nightmare for me since Trap changed over.

AstaHost has to change otherwise the security of the forum is at stake. The forum is not upgraded so that the forum can have all these pretty features. It's upgraded to prevent any forum hacks thereby compromising ultimately your hosting account and credits.

If hosting account wasn't important, the forum can always recover from database backup. But this will work against the hosting credit, like we've seen in the Trap17--loss of hosting credits.

The better statement is the forum upgrade is alright but the new AJAX shoutbox should be fixed. And this is up to the author of D22 shoutbox Dean. Dscripting.com is not acknowledging any wrongness of the current D22 shoutbox. And I'm afraid for all those who depend on Dean's shoutbox is at his mercy.

This topic is to warn possible database revert because the forum database has been attacked in recent days. And if this is the same as Trap17, AstaHost will experience database restore after the forum version upgrade.