Switching over

[T3nnisFan]

Hi all,

I'm T3nnisFan. I ended up here because my previous web host suspended my account without notice and as far as I know, I was following all their rules and had read all their guidelines. My attempts to get an explanation or any kind of support has been met with neglect. Their rules stated that any suspension would come after a notice, which I never got. Unfortunately, all my files are now lost since I never kept any backups. I know that's a silly mistake but I'm somewhat of a newb. I only started making a site to hold a tiny bracket competition for tennis tournaments, which I do for free and for fun.

I'm quite disappointed with the previous host, who I shall not name in the spirit of professionalism and in accordance with this forum's rules. So, I'm hoping that this site will be at least a bit more friendlier towards its free users. The rules seem to indicate it anyway, which is good.

Hopefully I can get these 10 quality posts done soon so that I can apply for a free hosting account!

There was one thing that wasn't clear... Is PHP allowed?

Prohibited Use
Gigarank prohibits the use of its servers for:

* Text based online games that use crons to deliver mass mail.

* Web proxies of any kind, php, CGI etc.

It says 10 MYsql Databases will be allowed (on the /free-hosting.php page) so shouldn't PHP be allowed as well?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

 

[rockforlife]

Hi all,

I'm T3nnisFan. I ended up here because my previous web host suspended my account without notice and as far as I know, I was following all their rules and had read all their guidelines. My attempts to get an explanation or any kind of support has been met with neglect. Their rules stated that any suspension would come after a notice, which I never got. Unfortunately, all my files are now lost since I never kept any backups. I know that's a silly mistake but I'm somewhat of a newb. I only started making a site to hold a tiny bracket competition for tennis tournaments, which I do for free and for fun.

I'm quite disappointed with the previous host, who I shall not name in the spirit of professionalism and in accordance with this forum's rules. So, I'm hoping that this site will be at least a bit more friendlier towards its free users. The rules seem to indicate it anyway, which is good.

Hopefully I can get these 10 quality posts done soon so that I can apply for a free hosting account!

There was one thing that wasn't clear... Is PHP allowed?

Prohibited Use
Gigarank prohibits the use of its servers for:

* Text based online games that use crons to deliver mass mail.

* Web proxies of any kind, php, CGI etc.

It says 10 MYsql Databases will be allowed (on the /free-hosting.php page) so shouldn't PHP be allowed as well?

Thanks in advance for your replies.

The account includes php. It is saying you can run a php based proxy server

 

[GigaGreg]

Hey there, glad you are going to stay with us.

No, PHP is allowed, what you cannot use is PHP Proxy which is a script that will allow you to visit websites that are blocked or hidden from the surface.

To make it clear, you can use any kind of cms or php scripts such as Wordpress, PHP-Fusion, PHP chat etc, you cannot use Proxy based on PHP.

About PHP Proxy:
PHP-Proxy is a script written in PHP that acts as a proxy to be used for the purpose of fetching Internet's resources on behalf of the server and returning its contents back to the client. PHP-Proxy was built to be fast and simple to configure and as an alternative to Glype. https://www.php-proxy.com/

 

[T3nnisFan]

Hey there, glad you are going to stay with us.

No, PHP is allowed, what you cannot use is PHP Proxy which is a script that will allow you to visit websites that are blocked or hidden from the surface.

Thanks! So if I have a php script that refers to an external site (one that is open), is that okay? The last thing I was working on was updating the ranking of a competition by getting results from official site(s). Would that be considered as a php proxy?

I was also just checking out the competitions page. They all seem outdated. The one ending in September seems to be the latest one. Is that about right? Are there any new ones planned for the near future?

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Hey there, glad you are going to stay with us.

No, PHP is allowed, what you cannot use is PHP Proxy which is a script that will allow you to visit websites that are blocked or hidden from the surface.

To make it clear, you can use any kind of cms or php scripts such as Wordpress, PHP-Fusion, PHP chat etc, you cannot use Proxy based on PHP.

About PHP Proxy:
PHP-Proxy is a script written in PHP that acts as a proxy to be used for the purpose of fetching Internet's resources on behalf of the server and returning its contents back to the client. PHP-Proxy was built to be fast and simple to configure and as an alternative to Glype.

I just saw the second part. So, I'm pretty sure that might be a problem here... I will need to find some alternative then. Thanks again.

 

[GigaGreg]

What kind of a website you would like to have ?

 

[T3nnisFan]

A competitions page.

For a given week or fortnight, people would enter (I was trying to implement logging in with usernames/passwords when everything got shut down) and then make their predictions/picks for who will win the matches for each round. They would then submit this form which would go to a mySql db and then when the tournament starts, there would be several pages showing rankings/results. No more than a dozen.

I used to do this manually by uploading each result page every now and then... But I was working towards making it all automatic so that when someone visits a results page, (the ranking points page for a given tourney let's say), the php script will extract the latest results from the official site of the tennis tourney and then update that results page.

I hope that's clear enough.

 

[GigaGreg]

You can make such a website like you have said, but make sure that is not any kind of a proxy server.

 

[Genesis]

Welcome to Gigarank T3nnisFan ! :drinks:

 

[T3nnisFan]

I was using yql for getting the external data so I don't think that's a proxy server. Is there anyway I can give the script here in the forum or to an admin to verify before I do it so that I know for sure I won't be banned?

 

[Genesis]

Is it possible to just send us a link to it? Or you could PM me and I'll make sure it gets to the right people to check it out.

Do you have a license for the script? If it is licensed you'll have to have a copy of the license as well.

 

[T3nnisFan]

Is it possible to just send us a link to it? Or you could PM me and I'll make sure it gets to the right people to check it out.

Do you have a license for the script? If it is licensed you'll have to have a copy of the license as well.

I can't exactly provide any links since the previous host site has suspended my account along with all my previous work
Not sure about licensing. It's my own script. I'll need to re-write it anyway since it doesn't look like I'll ever have access to my old files.

I just dread having to redo the 100+ columns for the mySql db tables! I normally copied from an existing table going back to an initial table I did manually...

I appreciate all the input though. Although I have yet to acquire some space here, it's already more friendly than the previous site! :good:

 

[Genesis]

Is it possible to just send us a link to it? Or you could PM me and I'll make sure it gets to the right people to check it out.

Do you have a license for the script? If it is licensed you'll have to have a copy of the license as well.

I can't exactly provide any links since the previous host site has suspended my account along with all my previous work
Not sure about licensing. It's my own script. I'll need to re-write it anyway since it doesn't look like I'll ever have access to my old files.

I just dread having to redo the 100+ columns for the mySql db tables! I normally copied from an existing table going back to an initial table I did manually...

I appreciate all the input though. Although I have yet to acquire some space here, it's already more friendly than the previous site! :good:

Could be that the script used a lot of resources. I'm surprised they won't allow you to at least make a backup of your Website. That's definitely not very nice of them. Maybe you need to persist? Ask very nicely as though your whole life depended on it.

 

[helpremember]

Hi and welcome to gigarank.

 

[T3nnisFan]

Could be that the script used a lot of resources. I'm surprised they won't allow you to at least make a backup of your Website. That's definitely not very nice of them. Maybe you need to persist? Ask very nicely as though your whole life depended on it.

I did persist but I can't believe I didn't think to simply ask for a backup of my files. I did it as soon as you suggested and it actually worked so a big thank you to you Genesis! :drinks: I didn't ask as if my life depended on it but what I said was in the same ballpark! hehe

Am I at 10 posts yet? Can't wait to get started here! :smile:

 

[rockforlife]

lol I see 9 posts for you. I'm interested to check out your site when you get it up and running again.

 

[Genesis]

Could be that the script used a lot of resources. I'm surprised they won't allow you to at least make a backup of your Website. That's definitely not very nice of them. Maybe you need to persist? Ask very nicely as though your whole life depended on it.

I did persist but I can't believe I didn't think to simply ask for a backup of my files. I did it as soon as you suggested and it actually worked so a big thank you to you Genesis! :drinks: I didn't ask as if my life depended on it but what I said was in the same ballpark! hehe

Am I at 10 posts yet? Can't wait to get started here! :smile:

Well that probably must have redeemed them a little bit with you. Glad you got access to your files! :good:

 

[T3nnisFan]

lol I see 9 posts for you. I'm interested to check out your site when you get it up and running again.

It's not that special! I am but an amateur. :smile:

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Could be that the script used a lot of resources. I'm surprised they won't allow you to at least make a backup of your Website. That's definitely not very nice of them. Maybe you need to persist? Ask very nicely as though your whole life depended on it.

I did persist but I can't believe I didn't think to simply ask for a backup of my files. I did it as soon as you suggested and it actually worked so a big thank you to you Genesis! :drinks: I didn't ask as if my life depended on it but what I said was in the same ballpark! hehe

Am I at 10 posts yet? Can't wait to get started here! :smile:

Well that probably must have redeemed them a little bit with you. Glad you got access to your files! :good:

Yes it did.

I tried deleting that double post just above this one but it won't let me. Am I just not allowed or can someone do that for me please? :smile:

 

[Genesis]

I think in general you can delete the last post, not the post before the last one. And only for the period of time that you are allowed to edit the post. As there is a limit of time with which you can make edits. 45 minutes.

 

[T3nnisFan]

I think in general you can delete the last post, not the post before the last one. And only for the period of time that you are allowed to edit the post. As there is a limit of time with which you can make edits. 45 minutes.

I tried deleting the last post almost immediately but it didn't let me. It's no big deal anyway.
Looks like I have my 10 quality posts! Thanks for keeping the thread going so I could accumulate them