Questions:
  1. Can I place adult oriented banners on my site?
  2. As I am this District Web Master I want to know before I committ to your hosting Plan, Can I have a site that will have a Domain Name say WWW.district1234.org with each Club as WWW.district1234.org/jonestown? How can I achieve this? can each club have it's own email? Do you allow Multiple Domain Name hosting on one site?
  3. If I sign up with us will you guys submit my site to search engines?
  4. Can I create a free greeting card option using your features?
  5. Can I host a legal gambling website with gambling links on your servers?
  6. Hi I see that you allow 5gb of traffic a month. Can you explain that to me in terms I can understand. Does that mean site hits? How many site hits would that be? How many are we allowed a month? What is bandwith and how much do we get and how do we use bandwith? Would normal traffic use bandwith? Please help to clarify this for me .
  7. If I wanted to provide a better html editor/wizard to content providers on my site, is that possible?
  8. What happens if I go ABOVE my alloted traffic in a month ?
  9. How much traffic are we allowed per month ?
  10. I am under 18... can I get a hosting account ?
  11. I have just been told that you have closed down a site due to spamming. Now, what happens if one of my clients does some spamming? I hope that you will inform me to inform them or we just close down their site. I would hate to think that you would hold me responsible and close down my site. That would be a disaster for my new business. Its all I have and it`s coming along nicely.
  12. What asssurance do I have that you guys aren't a fly-by-night organization?
  13. I have an acount with www.x-mb.com and would like to host my own message board services. Please give me your policy in this regard.
  14. How EXACTLY does this FREE DOMAIN thing work ?
  15. What happens if I am caught SPAMMING ?
  16. What is SPAM ?
  17. Am I allowed to install a BBS (Bulletin Board) on my account ?
  18. Am I allowed to install a CHAT ROOM on the server ?
  19. Am I allowed to run an IRC-bot, like eggdrop? This would run as a background process...
Answers:
  1. Can I place adult oriented banners on my site?
    Absolutely NOT !!
  2. As I am this District Web Master I want to know before I committ to your hosting Plan, Can I have a site that will have a Domain Name say WWW.district1234.org with each Club as WWW.district1234.org/jonestown? How can I achieve this? can each club have it's own email? Do you allow Multiple Domain Name hosting on one site?
    Yes, you can have a site that will have a Domain Name say WWW.district1234.org with each Club as WWW.district1234.org/jonestown
    To achieve this, you would simply login to your Online Control Panel and click File Manager, go to where you want to create the Directory, and create it.

    Yes, you can have 999 POP email accounts.

    You can park domains.
  3. If I sign up with you will you guys submit my site to search engines?
    No, we do not offer that as a basic service.
  4. Can I create a free greeting card option using your features?
    Sure YOU CAN.
    We would not do it for you though... you would need to program the entire thing yourself :)
  5. Can I host a legal gambling website with gambling links on your servers?
    As long as it is LEGAL to do so in our jurisdiction.
  6. Hi I see that you allow 5gb of traffic a month. Can you explain that to me in terms I can understand. Does that mean site hits? How many site hits would that be? How many are we allowed a month? What is bandwith and how much do we get and how do we use bandwith? Would normal traffic use bandwith? Please help to clarify this for me .
    1 GIG of traffic/bandwidth is:
    1,000,000 bytes of information.
    That is about 100,000 hits...
    so, 5 gigs is about 500,000 hits per month.
    Of course, email, cgi, gifs, etc all add to that, but that is a good base for you to start to understand :)
  7. If I wanted to provide a better html editor/wizard to content providers on my site, is that possible?
    Yes, of course :)
  8. What happens if I go ABOVE my alloted traffic in a month ?
    Your account will be suspended until the next month. Or order additional traffic allowance at contact@x-mb.com .
  9. How much traffic are we allowed per month ?
    5 GIGS per month is allowed.
    THAT IS A LOT !!!
  10. I am under 18... can I get a hosting account ?
    No, you must have someone over 18 sign up for you, after you turn 18, then we can change it over to you :)
  11. I have just been told that you have closed down a site due to spamming. Now, what happens if one of my clients does some spamming? I hope that you will inform me to inform them or we just close down their site. I would hate to think that you would hold me responsible and close down my site. That would be a disaster for my new business. Its all I have and it`s coming along nicely.
    Unfortunately, that is just the way it works.
    If you are going to take the risk of allowing users on to your DOMAIN/account... then you are also taking on the liability for what they do.
    99% of hosts will also have this policy.

    This is why it is always best to simply have your clients have their own domains.
  12. What asssurance do I have that you guys aren't a fly-by-night organization?
    None - we aren´t.
  13. I have an acount with you and would like to host my own message board services. Please give me your policy in this regard.
    Yes, you can... BUT, if your BBS is poorly written... MOST ARE, and the script begins to harm the server... MOST DO, we will have to disable the script.
    SO, if you are planning on having the worlds largets BBS on Purple Elephants, and you think you will be getting thousands of posts per day... place the script on another server :)
  14. How EXACTLY does this FREE DOMAIN thing work ?
    Very simple:

    We provide ONE FREE .net, .org, or .com domain name with every NEW, FULLY PAID account
  15. What happens if I am caught SPAMMING ?
    If you are caught spamming, you are fined (see pricelist or e-mail contact@x-mb.com) per incident, and your account is suspended, and you are not elegible for refund. We will prosecute all offenders to the fullest extent of the law.
  16. What is SPAM ?
    Commercial Advertising, Spam Or Unsolicited E-Mail:
    The webservers may not be the source, intermediary, or destination address involved in the transmission of spam, flames, or mail bombs. Your domain may not be referenced as originator, intermediary, or reply-to address in any of the above. SPAMMING sites on other servers which in turn contain links to a domain on our servers is prohibited. We consider spam any mass unsolicited message in the mediums of Bulletin Boards, Newsgroups, Email and any other online medium.
     
    In other words, do not email people if they do not know you !!

    Also, you are not allowed to sell or promote spam or spam related products on your site. If you are found to have spammed, then we will immediately, without warning, disable your domain. In addition, we will impose a  penalty for each spam policy violation. We reserve the right to refuse or cancel service to known spammers. Lastly, we reserve the right to determine what violates this policy. WE will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

    As such, any violation will result in immediate deactivation of services without refund.
  17. Am I allowed to install a BBS (Bulletin Board) on my account ?
    Yes, you can... BUT, if your BBS is poorly written... MOST ARE, and the script begins to harm the server... MOST DO, we will have to disable the script.
    SO, if you are planning on having the worlds largets BBS on Purple Elephants, and you think you will be getting thousands of posts per day... place the script on another server :)
  18. Am I allowed to install a CHAT ROOM on the server ?
    No, we only allow you to have CHAT ROOMS that are NOT LOCATED on the server.

    There are many of these available... the best being:
    HEARME:
    http://www.hearme.com/products/voicecreator/

    AGAIN, if you place a CHAT ROOM directly on our server, meaning: the chat room applet, cgi, BOT, or IRC is ON OUR SERVER, your site will be suspended without notice.
  19. Am I allowed to run an IRC-bot, like eggdrop? This would run as a background process...
    NO!!

    Background Running Programs:
    As a general rule we do not allow background running programs. We may allow programs to run continually in the background , these are considered on a one to one basis and an extra charge will be incurred based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed.

    IRC:
    We currently do not allow you to link to or use IRC or IRC bots such as eggdrop, and BitchX on our servers.