Does activating your account reset your points to a certain level or are whats labeled as points before one is hosted count less after hosting? I ask because before I activated my hosting I had 70 credits listed. I went straight to plan 2 which I understand is 30 credits. Thus it seems that I would have 40 credits left.

I do not know how credits equate to days of hosting however, it seems that 40 credits would equate to more than 2 days. If I wrong that is fine or the credits are lost or whatever is not really a big concern. I more curious than anything else.

This post has been edited by Darasen: May 4 2008, 06:13 PM

One credit equals one day. Credits are lost when you post something against the rules (spam, warez, ...)

Unless it has changed recently, you are reset to 3 credits after getting a hosting plan regardless of how many you build up prior to applying for hosting. Past this, you will have your credits reduced by 1 credit per day. The amount of credits you'll receive for posts vary due to a number of criteria and factors.

Thanks Jeigh, that is exactly the information I was looking for. I looked through the FAQ and did not see that information.

ouch . Can't exactly say that I think this is fair.

Especially after going down 40 points! That would have been a pain, all that hard work posting! But I understand why that rule stands, imagine the amount of credits you could get without it!

It was a kick in the pants for me. I expected the application process to take a while, so I applied for the lower-level hosting once I had the required amount of credits and I kept building up to about 50 or 55. I did this so that once my application was accepted--if it was accepted--I could start using it right away and apply for the second-level hosting at the same time. However, as soon as my application was accepted my credits all disappeared! Lost around 50 credits.

And my domain still doesn't work properly! The nameservers are right, and have been for longer than the TTL, so Astahost is just taking a while to apply the settings, I guess...

- Jared