MikeJ

Once upon a time TCH allowed SSH (shell) access to the servers, and therefore phpshell was allowed as well. That policy has since changed (for shared servers), but that is why you can still find old posts referring to both of those no longer allowed access methods. In addition, running server side daemons (services) by users on shared hosting isn't allowed, and won't work (it's blocked). To make that game work, you have to run a server process to allow the game clients to connect to it. I'm sorry about the above, but allowing a user to run their own process on a server port of a shared server has too many security issues to allow.

Secure in what way? cPanel functions are only available to people who are logged into cpanel. If you want encrypted access to cPanel, you can use the following addresses: https://******:2083/ - SSL cPanel https://******:2096/ - SSL webmail https://******:2087/ - SSL whm (resellers only) You'll get a certificate warning about it not matching, but you can accept the connection anyway and it will be encrypted.

Yea, I didn't care, it was just a good lead in for my response. I don't have a good lead in for this one though... One foot in the grave.

The best way to look at it is this: A semi-dedicated server is basically just a high level reseller account. You have the exact same setup, just the number of TCH customers on the server is limited. It still falls under the same limitations as all shared hosting does, as it is shared with other people. A dedicated server is your box. You have full root access. You can run anything on it (including streaming media, voice servers, games, etc...) that doesn't violate TCH's TOS and AUP. CPU utilization you can use to your heart's content as you are the only user on the box (well, only TCH customer on the box, if you resell accounts).

As Dick stated, the directories created by PHP scripts are created by the user the webserver runs as (user "nobody"). Therefore, you cannot change ownership, or permissions of the directory, or the files uploaded, because you don't own them. Your best bet, as Lisa said, is to make sure your script creates directories and files with permissions 777, so you can at least make sure you can delete the files, otherwise you could find yourself in a position where you cannot even remove something.... at least not without writing another php script to do it. P.S. I should add, btw, that if you wrote or are using an upload script, you should do some type of sanity checking on the files. Like if it's strictly for images, make sure it has a .jpg, .gif, .png, etc... extenision. Also, only allowing trusted users (like members of your site) to upload helps too. I've seen several cases where people have open upload scripts that allow people to upload anything they want, including PHP scripts which they can then run to do bad things.

Looking in the mirror.

Yes, indeed. You can run anything on a dedicated server as long as it doesn't break the TOS or AUP. I run Ventrilo on one of mine.

Everyone, I wasn't going to add to this thread, but I'd just like to point out a couple things in here... This is a forum. This is a forum attached to a business. This is a forum attached to a business who's primary focus is not to run a forum based community but to run a webhosting business. While TCH tries to keep as open a policy as possible (and I feel TCH accomplishes that quite well when you compare it with the majority of business forums out there), TCH does reserve the right to close any thread if we feel there's a need for it to be closed. You may not always know or understand the reasons, but it's certainly not to silence people. (Bill, you can correct me if any of that is not a valid statement). The problem with most "complaints" is that they involve information regarding a customer's account. Often this is why they are closed (not deleted) because TCH won't discuss customer information in a public forum, nor as Bill said, debate what happened between TCH and any specific customer in a public forum. It's just not the appropriate place for it. The other thread closings have already been pretty much discussed. I'll just add that using forums of any type in general, you will always get much better results if you stick to facts when posting criticisms (what you actually know, not what you assume). And as a business related forum, we are more apt to close threads that have the strong potential of problems being caused, then waiting until it happens. After it happens, we have to start deleting threads (which is much worse than closing them in my opinion), and you can't take back what people have already read, and we don't want people to stop using the forums because they felt insulted. I'm particularly surprised at you, Bob, since you have always been a valuable member of the forums, and as you stated yourself, a moderator for over 10 years. Your original comment in this thread was derogatory and based on how you wrote it, intended to cause friction, not create discussion. You should know you will get the reaction you got, and you should know there are more appropriate ways to voice concerns of that type. But don't take this the wrong way, Bob, I'm not trying to set you up as a bad guy... The rest of your posts are always good, and I'm just trying to shed some light on the thread and hopefully everyone will settle down and get back to regular business as usual. I'll end with this following statement for you all to think about, too: Put yourself in Bill's shoes. Imagine starting your own business and pouring your soul into it for several years, and caring deeply about the quality you provide to all customers. Now how would you run your forum, and how would you react? It may not be exactly the same, but I hope you can at least understand why he makes the decisions he does. Are some of the reactions maybe a little over the top due to pride? Very possibly. But that comes with the territory of caring deeply about what you do.

2X was an approximation.

The one pretty much anyone who's asked for online advice usually sees.... IANAL - I am not a lawyer usually followed with ", but...."

The required disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. If you really want to use the material, you should seek the advice of one. That said, since I often do various levels of consulting in addition to having a full time job, my understanding is this: Any work you perform for a company while being paid by the company and/or using company resources, is property of that company unless you have an explicit contract that says otherwise. Any use or reuse of that work outside of that company, you would have to get approval for. I believe Bruce is right in the sense that if it's a public site, putting up screenshots of it in a portfolio would be perfectly acceptable. If it's a private site, that becomes a bit of a grey area and you should probably seek permission from the company (if that's something you were in the position to do). Having functioning copies of the site or database app for your portfolio also is something that legally is probably not allowed. You would be much safer with screenshots and descriptions of what you did. Just make sure that you aren't divulging any company intellectual property when you describe the work and what it was for. Anyway, someone who actually does design or development work and has more experience with portfolios may have more to add.

"diff" is (originally I believe) a unix command to find the differences between two files. That's where a lot of these programs get the name from most likely. So yea, it's short for differences.

Please enter a support desk ticket so we can take a look at it (we need your account info).

Yea.... some spammers watch for new domain registrations. Just set your default mail address catch-all to go to :blackhole: to get rid of mail not sent to valid accounts.

Nope. Teamspeak can't be used on shared servers as it's a separate service that has to run on the system.

That should be just fine. Just keep in mind that those transfers for backups will count against your monthly bandwidth limit, so make sure to account for that when you select a webhosting package (however, you can upgrade packages at any time.)

Submit a support ticket and request that a PTR record (reverse DNS) gets assigned for your server. Edit by TCH-Raul:Mike, I edited the link to the help desk. It had HTTP but the address is HTTPS.

Well, to be technically accurate, that's not entirely a true statement. Caffiene, for example, is a diuretic. So while a caffienated beverage will still hydrate you, you have to drink a lot more of it to get the same effect. Water and sports type drinks are still your best methods of hydrating yourself. (I'm a road cyclist, so these things are important. )

This was already discussed in a thread you replied in. The short answer is awstats that TCH uses is integrated with cPanel, so we update it when cPanel does. Since 6.1 was just recently released, it may take a little while for it to get integrated.

Hivemail is a complete email solution, not one that would play nicely with cPanel (or for that matter.... at all). It also wouldn't make sense to use in a shared environment as it takes control of the server's email handling (and you would lose the ability to add your own accounts most likely). It's better suited for someone providing an email only solution with webmail as the primary means of using the service.

You can use CSS to implement frames dynamically. This is what I use in my blog to automatically frame any images in my "pics/" directory: >.storycontent img[src*="pics/"] { padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #999; background: #fff; margin: 5px 0 20px; } That's a very simplistic example, but you could get a lot fancier with it with more advanced CSS. I believe it's not 100% compatible with all browsers, either, but works for most. That obviously doesn't help with the uploading part though.

Yea, actually TCH-Lisa and TCH-Michelle both joined since Glenn's post. The family keeps on growin'.

If you wrote the content of the PDF, how did you get it into the PDF format in the first place? Do you not have the source text anymore (or did someone else produce the PDF for you)? As has pretty much been stated, trying to "edit" a PDF is about as easy as attempting to modify a program after it has been compiled. You can pull the text out of it, but you'll lose all the formatting and it won't be the quite the same as the original. If this is just a one time thing, and all you want is the text, PM me, maybe I can extract it for you (I own a copy of Acrobat).

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Rob... this is your intervention. Put down the keyboard. We are here to help.