I was traveling on the road today when I had one of those ohh crap moments. Last night I had every intention of posting on Astahost because I was down to something like .7 credits and I knew I was going to get my hosting suspended if I didn’t post (not like it hasn’t happened in the past). Like I said, I had every intention but I forgot and I remembered today when I was well over 5 hours away from home and gone for the weekend. While I was thinking in the car I also had the idea of paying for emergency credits. In situations like mine it would be wonderful to be able to pay for credits. Perhaps add a PayPal link for such things and $10 for 5 days credit. This would prevent the casual users from just paying all the time and not posting because it would just be easier to get a paid host for less.

In the end all worked out, I still had .2 credits when I got to a computer (better type fast) but that was surprise because I thought I surely already got cut off. I know this would be some work on the administrator’s part but I thought this may be an interesting solution to my time spent in the car wondering “ohh crap, how long until I can get to a computer?”

You can purchase Hosting Credits. See below:

It's happened to me many times, where I got suspended because i didn't have any more credits. Not so much now with my cable line, but when i was on dialup and the phones would go dead for a week. I would finally get online and see that i was minus 4 or 5 hosting credits, but at least it seemed to me that astahost was very generous with those credits needed to get back the hosting. I would get like 2 points for a relatively short post, and only once i was in the clear would i get half a point or a point for the same post length.
Was that just my imagination, or does it actually work that way, I don't know.

Nope, it's not your imagination. From what I read on the credit system, it should work that way. It gives those with fewer credits a chance to build up the credits quicker in the beginning. But once you have more credits, you will need to add more content than before to get the same amount of credits. As long as you are an active member here, that shouldn't be a problem

I don’t think contacting the sales department at 5pm on a Friday would really be wise if you were in an “emergency.” I was thinking more along the lines of an automated process.

Even though i am a paid member of ComputingHost now and a bit unhappy. Just so that other members would know, how much does one hosting credit cost in U.S. currency?

Its probably not too much since a basic ComputingHost account with more space and bandwith per month costs around 3.30.

At trap these are the current prices for purchasing hosting credits.



18.5 credits per dollar-$10.00
18.25 credits person-$20.00
16.6 credits per dollar-$30.00
18.25 credits per dollar-$40.00

Since most likely astahost is using the same plan for purchasing credits then what I showed you will be right on the breakdown.

If a user only wanted a month of hosting credits would that be possible?

I think those are quite reasonable. I may have to buy a couple hundred.

I will find out if AstaHost has automated checkout for hosting credit purchase. And I will let admins know and have it available for all--that is if it exists.

In the mean time, please make sure that your hosting credits are above 10 possibly at all times. This will make your life less complicated