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Your best bet at this point would be to open a support ticket or, if you use AOL Instant Messenger or Yahoo!, send a message to TCHGuruBill or TCHGuruMike and they will be happy to help you get this straightened out. Typically, it only takes a couple of hours for your account to complete the setup. But it does seem that you are having a billing question that needs the help of someone with more power than what the forum moderators (the boys in blue) have access to. Track down a username in Red and have them get you in touch with the absolutely correct person. Hope this helps! -Glenn

Like has been said, it is very difficult to figure out properly. You can analyze it a little better from previous stats files if you have hosted the site before. If not, it can be a shot in the dark. It is like saying you have a car leaving Atlanta at 4PM, when will the guy walking down the street need to get some food? There is simply not enough information to properly answer the question. YNK, I have never seen template or anything for figuring this type of thing out. Most times you just look at your history and take that into account. Sorry that I couldn't help ya on this one. However, a 300MB site is decent for a personal site, as long as you optimiae your graphics and do not try to use anything crazy like a lots of scripts or host a lot of video/audio files. On my average, a personal website will consume about 50MB for 5-10 normal pages. And the 5.5GB of transfer will work well as long as you don't try to promote the site with Slashdot.com. Tht plan should more than suffice you for a personal web site. Watch your stored email, though. I would recommend downloading any attachments you want to keep and deleting the emails to keep space consumed to a minimum. A great way to do this is to use a true SMTP client like Outlook Express or comparable program for your operating system. Using an IMAP client does not remove the mail from the server, keep that in mind. Welcome to the family! -GG

Oh, now it makes sense... that was confusing the bejeezus outta me.

So, does this mean you banned this person? I cannot tell, but they did go very silent all of a sudden. I have to agree with the suspicions and raise the BS flag at this point. This person knows details of a privacy-protected mediation, but doesn't know the person, or is not the person involved?? BS This person states that there are better plans out there on comparable hardware for the same or less money... and even has an offer standing from me for their frist 3 months on my dime? BS This person thinks that coming onto this board, and after looking around at the amaqzing folks we have here, and by espousing their drivel in the presales forum will somehow sway someone looking to host here? BS... look at the positive responses. Dim person... very dim. Tries to make it look lke they don't know the person involved in the mediation by going He/she? Not only BS, but also poor English. The accepted is to assume the male gender when speaking of a person of unknown gender. Shoulda expected that from FL, where many couldn't figure out a voting card (no offense to most Floridians, you're smart enough to live near the beauty that is FL... I lived there, and my parents still do). UGH, I could go on and on, but I digress as my comments can only get more derogatory towards the idiocy. Let me ask, though, why the sig where you have taken a moderator's avatar, added the TCH Rocks smiley and provided linking and an image of a company that you are so unsure of? Makes absolutely no stinkin sense to me. I am a very forgiving person and I do hope that I can have the opportunity to prove that to you should you just settle down and sign up, and realize that we truly are a family around here. Scared or not, you are not painting a pretty picture of yourself with the statements and claims you are making. -Glenn P.S. Some of you know what I do regarding security... can i have at 'em??? Someone offer me a contract for $0.01 and I am at it (I won't touch anything without a contract, LOL). [scrappy Doo]Lemme at 'em lemme at 'em[/scrappy Doo] /Pcap load mon.IP-'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -prot /UDP/TCP/SMTP/SNMP/HTTP -range '1-80000' /Pcap log-c:\protocol.txt ...left a lot of steps out to cover my tail... /Pcap load get '*.*' IP-'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' user-'xxxxxxxx' pass-'xxxxxx' /Pcap log-c:\structure.txt /Pcap sendfile-'del.bat' /e GRRRR

Welcome aboard, Other Bill You will see that you have made the right choice, on both the pricing and relationship! I am sure that you will be a positive addition to the boards with your experience and apparent willingness to help. -GG

awww man. I missed out on that one

Add me to the Trillian list. I installed and have been using it since a few days after first mention in here.

Aww, Jax don't look happy... wait, that is the normal look I get from you. Is that saying something??? BWHAHAHAAA

Ooooh FXP... I hate FXP!!! The one problem of intrusion I ever had was an FXP server getting setup on a dedicated box a while back that was being used by gamers. Nothing wrong with the utilities for FXP, but I have to say I have a bad taste anymore.

Welcome tot he family, Stu!! Chalk up another happy new customer welcomed in the pre-sales forum. Soon, this forum will be more welcomes than the actual introductions one... not a problem with that at all! Let us know if there is anything else we can help you with! -GG

The only issue I have with FP is that it is and always has been notorious for producing "dirty" code. Meaning that the pages typically conatin a lot of extraneous items that can jack up the file sizes and cause slow or broken page loads. That being said, I still use FP to check my pages in a semi-live status. I justcopy the code into the HTML tab and then preview them. But I never save a page in it because it goes nuts. Note: I am not saying that FP is not capable of producing high-quality pages, I am only speaking of personal experiences. See you around on the forums! -GG

StrangerStranger, I can understand your apprehensions when deciding where to spend your hard-earned money. My wife lets me know every day how hard it will be for me to spend mine (there's simply none left when she gets done with it ). The mediation process is just a formal word for 3rd Party Arbitration. This is imply where two people go to talk to an uninvolved person or entity to work out a problem. Kind of like a marriage counselor. The mediation process is in no way a litigious action such as a lawsuit, but is an agreement to disagree and let someone else make the final decision. Then the two (or more) parties go on about their ways with that decision. Seeing that a company is willing to go to mediation is actually a good thing. As some have said, most hosting companies out there take the mentality that "Our word is law, and you are not worthy" so when a problem arises, you have the options of take it and leave it, or take them to court and pray. I, too, am not a paid employee, but a customer asked to help out with other customers, and potential customers. We Forum Moderators (the unpaid folks) are also here to help keep topics moving, and to add new flavor to the boards. So I speak to you as a TCH customer, with nothing to gain. I have been involved in hosting and maintaining sites for several years like many of the other folks here. I have also ran the gamut from Dedicated servers, client-owned servers, and varying degrees of shared (virtual) servers. During the last 7-8 years of hosting, I have never run across a company more open and up front about their systems as TCH. I have never before even had a real clue as to who or what type of person the owner of the company is. Until just recently, I had never seen a customer forum where clients can talk with each other. Most hosts only let you know who their "premier" clients are for references... and those clients typically receive some sort of kickback in the form of free or discounted services for agreeing to be reference sites. Also, a typical call to tech support (after the 15-45 minute wait) to let them know my site was down would yield a canned answer. And, frequently, subsequent calls would gain me a different answer when connecting with a different tech. It was like they were told to pick an answer from a prescripted list and just tell whoever calls that this happened. On the TCH forums, the employees quickly alert folks to server status in the current server status, or answer customer concerns about their servers in the same location. I actually applaud you for being up front and asking questions. It is a sign of someone who is not willing to just "take what is offered" and wants to make sure that their cash is getting what they paid for. I don't want to tell you what to do, but I do offer these suggestions. I say that you SHOULD shop around and ask questions. Make them pointed. Find a benchmark of services offered, personal wishes and expected responses. Do open searches on the Internet and at hosting ratings sites for hosts that offer what you want. try to get a hold of their support staff and pointedly ask them about server loads, sites-per-server for shared accounts, server uptime reports for the last 12 months, average call resolution times (documented, not just a verbal "about this much"). And, very importantly, ask them for references of users who have similar or the same acount type you are looking for. They probably will not give you most of this information, but it is worth asking. Those that won't give that info are either not doing their job, or might just be trying to hide something. I do, however, have to refute one statement you made regarding other hosts giving the same thing or more for less. This is simply not true when you take into account the level of personal attention and sense of real community that TCH offers. The statement also is diminished in its factualness when you compare apples to apples in the hard facts of the offering. Post here with a service that has the hardware TCH offers, with the same or better features for same or less cost (apples to apples excluding operating systems, remember) and I will pay for your hosting with that company for 3 months (shared service comparable with TCH Deluxe Plan). Good luck in your search,and i hope to be adding you to the many people I welcome to the TCH forums and family! Regards, Glenn

Just letting you know that you have not been overlooked. I am looking for something, but have not yet found anything. One of the other gurus here will surely have something for you soon. -GG

Welcome to the Family, Donna I think you'll have fun over here, even though it is one of "those boards" Just let us know if you have any questions and we'll try to get the answer for you post haste. (I typically type posts at least three times before I send them due to spelling errors... part of using at least 2-4 different keyboards all the time and never having taken a typing class in my life)

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/news/04/q1/0212-candy.htm Here is a good read, and an excuse to support your local M&M distributor Basically, it tells of how M&Ms helped a physicist to realize that packed density can be increased by simple changes in the shapes of molecules. -GG :Nerd:

In IE... The favicon.ico file is not shown until you bookmark (add to favorites). Then it is visible in the Favorites list. Clicking on this bookmark will then show the icon in the address bar. Once the cookie expires, or you blow out the cache, the icon will be gone until you re-add the site to the favorites or resyncrhonize bookmarks (this will typically happen within a few seconds of viewing the bookmarked page). And the English version is not showing up for me either.

I agree HG, he is getting on up there. I was just wishing that when he did finally retire it would be because he was just ready to do so... not because he had a tragic accident that made it impossible for him to do so. You know.. quit 'cuase you want to, not 'cause you have to. Additionally, I like both common renditions of Van Halen. But DLR has just lost it, man, really. All of the music from back in the day by those guys is just really good driving music (cruising in the 350Z at breakneck speeds on a twisty canyon road to Hot For Teacher... Saweet!)

So far the week is turning out just as bad as the weekend, grrr. A look on the bright side, though, tells me that it can only get better from here (it stinkin better).

Ouch... that has got to be a pain in the rear. Sorry bout the breakin. And I thought I was having a bad weekend... Went to go out in the Jeep yesterday AM. Beautiful day in AZ, top off weather for sure... the trails were a callin'!! Let it get all warmed up, climb in, harnessed in push the brake and go to shift into gear. Brake pedal goes to the floor... shift gear... HUH!!! Pedal on the floor?!?! Rolling backwards under power?!?! Pump the pedal like a punching bag and it still hits the floor every time!!! ARRRRGH!!! Threw it in Neutral and killed the engine. Now the Jeep is sitting in the middle of my street and nearly hitting my neighbor's car braodside. Still not sure why my master cylinder is empty since there is no evidence of leakage or foul play to the hoses. Oh well... pushed up the axle swap by a few months. Glad neither of us was hurt or caused undue damage to others (even though you are entitled to it). -GG

mmmm cray. I remember my days playing on the AXL boxes

Here's mine at home... Can't post at work, as they will not allow cameras onto the campus. Please take pity on the E Machines case and dirt-old monitor... and the fact that I have to deal with my wife's Beanies all over the "office" beanies BEANIES EVERYWHERE!!! Thos things are three deep in areas!!!

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One more we are pleased to welcome to the family from the presales forum! Welcome to the Family, Donna If you have any questions at all, ask and ye shall receive! You have made the right choice, and we will strive to continually prove that to you. On you transfer... one thing you want to do is make sure you download everything BEFORE setting the nameservers, or you may lose visibility to the site over at Yahoo. -GG

Welcome to the Family!! I have nothing more to input on this issue as I have not used the service, and Bruce gave you the only thing I could have pointed you toward. If you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask! -GG

A few of the ones you missed: You are starting to believe that gravity DOES affeect everything You get upset that you'll have to stay up until 10PM... to catch the news stories that you missed at 6 You think that young women these days dress too provocatively You have ever said the words "Not tonight, it's a work night" Women: You are trying to find the off switch for your biological clock Men: You would rather watch (insert favorite sport) than making out with your significant other