Astahost Forum is now powered with Revenue Sharing Engine. This means, We will be showing ads on our forums (not to members with posts>100) and you take the share of the revenue earned. Advertisements are text-links and I am sure this would be the most profitable type of ads which are clean and pleasant to the user. The revenue is earned on click basis. Kontera knows about this service and they have accepted to sponsor our forums through our revenue sharing engine.

Using your Revenue Sharing Control inside MyControls section of forums, Update your PUBLISHER CODE at Kontera (which requires sign-up with their Service) and the color of the AD-Links. However, you will not be allowed to view your own ad to prevent accidental clicks.

The best way to earn revenue would be by starting Unique Topics which are not only NEW to us but also new to the Web. We encourage you to spread your topic links and attract good traffic to your articles. We suggest the following to make the most of this ad-revenue system :-

• Choose your Title & Description carefully. Make them as RELEVANT & INFORMATIVE compared to your Content/Post as possible.
• Make posts filled with lot of valuable content.
• Spread the links of your articles.
• Subscribe to your Topics to get alerts for any Replies.
• Use your Signature to Popularize your most important Articles on astahost
• If you can give a lot of Original and Detailed information about a certain topic, Consider making a new Topic!
• Avoid SPAMMING at all costs. The WARNS/BANS will prove you very expensive!

Our TextLink Ads are displayed based on the following probability:

• Percentage of time site owner's ads will display: 1%
  
• Percentage of time topic starter's ads will display: 39%
  
• Percentage of time last poster's ads will display: 1%
  
• Percentage of time any other poster's ads will display: 59%

http://www.astahost.com/index.php?autocom=adsense&code=explain

1. Multi-Core Processor Server
2. Network Powered by XO Communications
3. Automated Monthly Backups
4. On-Demand Backup
5. Weeky Database Backup
6. Supports Joomla, WordPress, VBulletin, Invision, phpBB, Gallery etc.
7. Special Optimizations for WAP sites.
8. Secured Client Area for Billing & Support Queries
9. 365 Day Support
10. Forum Support by more than 50,000 Members
11. Credit System v3 Support* to earn Credits (pay with virtual money)

1. Multi-Core Processor Server
2. Network Powered by XO Communications
3. Automated Monthly Backups
4. On-Demand Backup
5. Weeky Database Backup
6. Supports Joomla, WordPress, VBulletin, Invision, phpBB, Gallery etc.
7. Special Optimizations for WAP sites.
8. Secured Client Area for Billing & Support Queries
9. 365 Day Support
10. Forum Support by more than 50,000 Members
11. Credit System v3 Support* to earn Credits (pay with virtual money)

1. Signup at our forums.
2. Signup at our Billing & Support Area. (this will activate myCENTS - http://www.xistosupport.com/billing)
3. Contribute at forums to earn money,Once your earning is about $2, you can buy a package at XistoSupport.com

1. Register at our Billing & Support Area and use the same email which is in our Forum Records.
2. After 5 hours, You should be able to see your "Account Credit Balance" in US Dollars inside XistoSupport.com with which you can buy Hosting Package.

CREDIT SYSTEM v3.0 ONLINE

Dear Members,

Thank you for supporting Astahost for all these years and as promised, I am proud to announce the launch of Credit System v3.0. Credit System 3.0 offers complete accounting of user posts which also counts features like views, popularity and reputation to help better distribution of cents.

Unlike Credits, which used to represent 1 day of hosting, we now have a new point system called "cent". And yes, each cent represents 1 American "cent". The goal is to make good posts and gather 100 cents. Every time you cross 100, your cents will be converted to US Dollar and deposited into XistoSupport.com Billing/Shopping area.

Ooooo... so where is this Billing/Shopping area?
http://www.xistosupport.com/billing/ - This is our official Billing & Support area where we have been servicing ComputingHost and Xisto clients. From today, even Trap17 members are included

So where is my $?
To claim your earnings, simply register above with the same EMAIL which you are maintaining in our records at Trap17.com. suppose, at Trap17, your email address is ABC@ABC.COM, then the email used to register at XistoSupport.com should also be ABC@ABC.COM. Once linked, an account cannot unlink unless you want to freeze the forum account.

Your account will get linked automatically within 4-5 hours. Login to your account and you should be able to see "

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   6. Windows Hosting
   7. Reseller Hosting
   8. JSP Hosting
   9. ColdFusion Hosting (planning...)
   10. Website Builders
   11. Corporate Mail Hosting
   12. Virtual Private Servers
   13. Wild-Card Domain feature
   14. Shell Access. (eligible only after 3 months of hosting or Payment by Credit Card)
       
2. Ability to Register Domains and adding orders.
3. Credits earned as as good as real money.
4. Ability to refer and gain affiliate earnings.
5. Multiple Products.
6. Ability to add Dollars directly using Credit Card.
7. All post calculated.
8. Popularity, Reputation, Ratings etc. many features. accounted while converting credits to dollars. Do not be surprised if your dollars increase out of no reason ;-)
9. Secure Access to Support/Billing Area.
10. Integrated Annoucements, Knowledgebase, Troubleshooter, Downloads etc. inside the Billing Area.
    
11. Server status page.
12. An Integrated Control Panel to manage your Domains & Hosting and any other order with Xisto.
13. `CENT feature to make sure you do not get debited in case any of your post gets marked as spam. :-)
14. AstaHost Forums and Trap17 Forums will earn credits individually and deposit the money in your account at XistoSupport.com. So members are free to post anywhere provided the E-mail address is maintained on the registration profile is same.
15. CHOICE OF SUB-DOMAIN. (xxx.astahost.com) (xxx.trap17.com) ( more to be added )
16. Multi-Language Control Panel

I hope you all enjoy this new version of Credit.. myCent System

1. Signup at our forums.
2. Signup at our Billing & Support Area. (this will activate myCENTS)
   
   • This is the area where your earnings from forum participation will be deposited. This money can be used to buy any of our products or if you are our existing customer, you can also pay for your services using this earned balance. You are not required to have any credit-card and there is no age limit.
3. Contribute & Share your knowledge. (Please observe forum discipline instructions strictly)
4. Once your earning is about $2, you can buy a package at XistoSupport.com
   

1. Register at our Billing & Support Area and use the same email which is in our Forum Records.
2. After 5 hours, You should be able to see your "Account Credit Balance" inside XistoSupport.com
3. Your credit balance (in USD, collected by forum participation) is used to buy products and services of ComputingHost.com (ComputingHost offers personalized website & e-mail solutions)

No, Your previous posts from the date your sign-ed up are not lost and you get USD's for that automatically after you sign-up at Billing & Support.

Yes, After we discontinue Hosting Credits System, it will soon cause the linked account to get automatically deleted from the Server.
To secure this account, You must activate myCENTS and then Order a Package with the same domain name as your Old one.
You are now safe as your entire Billing & Support Relationship is now secured with Xisto.

As long as you are active on our forums making good posts, You keep accumulating your myCENTS automatically. This is as good as real money and hence, you do not require any Credit Card, Age Proof or any Contracts.

Yes, you will have to order a Package by logging inside your Billing & Support Area.

If you want to continue with your OLD HOSTING PACKAGE :-

1. Use the same sub-domain name as before while ordering LOGIC PLAN.
2. In NOTES section (during order process), mention your cpanel username and password. It will be checked and your account will be upgraded/downgraded accordingly.

How to Order xxx.trap17.com OR xxxx.AstaHost.com
http://www.trap17.com/forums/free-web-host...ure-t61751.html

I want to discontinue my old account. I want a NEW SUB-DOMAIN.

Plan an order for a New Package as usual.

At the time of Sign-up, In the notes section please mention "Delete My Old Trap17/AstaHost Account, I understand that this will cause all my data to be erased from the Server Permanently."

Yes.

First, Secure your Previous account by buying a package with a domain same as the old one. After that, plan a domain. Because, we can change your domain for your account anytime

The following Plans will be easily affordable considering few posts a week.

SAMPLE CUSTOMIZATION #1

Linux Regular Hosting - Logic Plan (mydomain.trap17.com OR mydomain.astahost.com)
» DISK SPACE: 1000MB
» BANDWIDTH (Transfer Limit per Month): 10000MB
» E-Mail Soln. (Yearly Only): user@yourdomain -> forwarder/aliases
» MySQL Databases: 5 - $0.49 USD
» Addon Domains: 1
» Parked Domains: 1
» Subdomains: 5
» FTP Accounts: 1
Estimate: $1.48 USD Monthly

SAMPLE CUSTOMIZATION #2

Linux Regular Hosting - Logic Plan (mydomain.trap17.com OR mydomain.astahost.com)
» DISK SPACE: 10000MB - $1.99 USD
» BANDWIDTH (Transfer Limit per Month): 50000MB - $0.99 USD
» MySQL Databases: 5 - $0.49 USD
» Addon Domains: 1
» Parked Domains: 1
» Subdomains: 5
» FTP Accounts: 5 - $0.29 USD
Estimate: $4.75 USD Monthly

Open_basedir limits the files that can be opened by PHP to the specified directory-tree, including the file itself. This directive is NOT affected by whether Safe Mode is turned On or Off.

If you try to open a file using your PHP program, you can open files only in PRESENT directory where your PHP program is OR sub-directories. So, suppose your php program is at :-

/www/mysite/myPhpProgram.php

You can open files and work with them using PHP in these locations:-

user1/www/mysite/ -> present folderuser1/www/mysite/subsite/ -> sub-folderuser1/www/mysite/subsite/subsubdir/ -> sub-sub-folder

You cannot open files in these locations :-

/www/ -> parent folder not allowed/user2/www/HISsite/ -> other user folder not allowed, even if it has 777 permission --> [CASE-A]

Consider CASE-A.

With OpenBase_dir Protection ON:

You being the programmer are not allowed to VIEW "user2's" file. You are given an error in PHP saying, open_basedir protection enabled.

If you are user2 here with folder "HISsite" (permission 777), You get safe because someone could had accessed your FOLDER "HISsite" and tampered with its contents, created files, folders, modified your content etc.

With OpenBase_dir Protection OFF:

With Protection OFF, anyone can access ANY of your folders and files with permission 777. This permission is usually given to PHP config files, folders were user contents are uploaded by your program like "uploads", "cache" etc.

A simple fopen and fwrite function can be used to Inject Code or data into your files. And much more can be done to abuse this power.

When a script tries to open a file with, for example, fopen() or gzopen(), the location of the file is checked. When the file is outside the specified directory-tree, PHP will refuse to open it. All symbolic links are resolved, so it's not possible to avoid this restriction with a symlink. If the file doesn't exist then the symlink couldn't be resolved and the filename is compared to (a resolved) open_basedir .

The special value . indicates that the working directory of the script will be used as the base-directory. This is, however, a little dangerous as the working directory of the script can easily be changed with chdir().

Good Question. The answer is, They will fail.
You will have to upgrade your script to better versions.

But, open_basedir is not something new and all php developers know about it. So, the amount of programs failing should be very rare.

Don't worry, Contact us at http://www.xistosupport.com.
Select the Right Dept. and Send us a support ticket.

We will take care of your situation. (applicable only to Paid Web Hosting Members only)

eAccelerator is a PHP accelerator derived from the MMCache extension for the PHP programming language. eAccelerator provides a bytecode cache and encoder. eAccelerator is open source and thereby free to use and distribute.

Every time a PHP script is accessed, PHP usually parses and compiles scripts to bytecode. Once installed, eAccelerator optimizes the compiled bytecode and caches this to shared memory or disk. Upon subsequent accesses to a script, eAccelerator will access cached bytecode if it is available instead of the script being compiled. This avoids the performance overhead of repeated parsing and compilation.

eAccelerator also provides functions for use in PHP scripts that allow access to shared memory, automatic web (content) caching, and other related tasks.

Simple, If you logon to your PHP forums/gallery or other application and say, "WHOA! That was FAST!". You can give the credits to eAccelerator! :-)

• Reduced DNS Failure (Especially North America)
• Server at ThePlanet Datacenter.
• Better Protection & Safety for DNS records.
• Incase of any server failure in our cluster, DNS will not fail.
• Seperate Server for DNS to help us handle DDOS attacks in peace :-)

NS1.ASTAHOST.COM => 64.69.35.170

NS.COMPUTINGHOST.COM => 67.19.253.52

NS2.ASTAHOST.COM => 64.69.35.177

NS2.COMPUTINGHOST.COM => 64.69.35.177

1. More secure.
2. More reliable.
3. Easily Upgradable and employs Module system.
4. Has a Much better look.
5. Central Login.
6. Ajax Powered.
7. Has a Log System.
8. Good number of Bugs fixes

May be I m one of those guyz who have forgotten the essence of Diwali,

May be I m one of those guys who just remembers the joys n maddness of Diwali when I was a kid,

May be .. I m one of those who smiles by seeing everyone smiling,

May be.. I am one of those who say things because thats how people are saying..

But in this auspecious occasion of love and harmony,

I just feel like stopping and watching around,

Feeling the Joy in the noise, the culture inside tradition,

And seeing Light in the darkest corner of the city...

At this time, I like to pray my heart out,

Without feelings or desires, where I feel the spirit inside me,

Is the spirit inside everyone,

Who is just as unique and pure as God,

To Bless you Happiness and Peace,

and bring you closer to the God I define in me.

From Heart and Soul.

I wish you all a VERY VERY VERY HAPPY & PEACEFUL DIWALI..

-God Bless everyone-

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2. Customized Optimization.
3. Freedom to install any application / modules / libraries etc.
4. Root Access!
5. More Speeeed! for your Web Hosting clients
6. More reliability for your Web site
7. Reduced Number of Support Calls, You have everything under your control :-)
8. Better management of Load due to sudden Website traffic SpiKe!

Chief Director of WellnessPositive : Alexander Pheonix

FREE DOMAIN OFFER

Any one of the following will be allowed for 250 credits.

1. 1 FREE DOMAIN per Member for 1 Year.
2. 1 Year Free Renewal.
3. Free Transfer

REQUIREMENTS

We deduct 250 Credits from every approved application. However, you must have 280 credits to apply. So that, after the deduction, you have 30 credits remaining in your account.

The following are the general rules.

1. User must have Quality Posts.
2. Every member is eligible for only 1 domain.
3. Approval is on Staff's discretion.
4. Website will be hosted by Xisto.

Credits Required to apply : 280 ( out of which only 250 would be deducted)

APPLICATION STEPS

To process the request as fast as possible, please follow the following steps :-

1. Collect 280 Credits by making GENUINE QUALITY posts without copying. Spamming can lead to suspension of your account.
2. Go to http://www.xidomains.com and SEARCH for your domain name.
3. If Domain name is available or (if you want to transfer):-
   1. Go ahead with registration until you are asked to PAY.
   2. Close your browser window.
4. Put an application for Free Domain at Trap17. (click for Free Domain Name)

Do you have to be hosted first and then collect the credits to get the domain?

Yes, it is necessary.

Will the domain be a .com or .net .org or other?

.com/.net/.org/.info allowed. More to be added soon.

If the one year of having this domain is over, do you lose your hosting and have to apply for a new one, or it will be replaced by a subdomain?

Members will have the opportunity to collect 250 credits again by the next year and apply for renewal before 1 month of expiry.
Members also have the option to manually RENEW their domain by payment at http://www.xidomains.com/

Are we allowed to choose one of the three options? Which mean I have to get 250 credits to get a domain and another 250 if I wanted to transfer it etc...?

No. 250 credits for REGISTRATION OR TRANSFER.

If we got a domain and hosting, do we have to pay a credit per day like an ordinary hosting account? Or we will get a year with the hosting offer for no credits per day/month?

Everything continues as before. You must have credits in your account to keep up your hosting.

How long will this offer be available?

This offer is in BETA stage. We cannot guarantee any date of expiry for this offer. Its under testing and depending on the response, We might change the rules in future.

How many members can apply for free domain?

1 Hosted Member => 1 Domain.