Love the Hosting Hate the Suspensions.

[itnetworkdesigns12]

Love the Hosting Hate the Suspensions. I hate getting these notices in the email all time that my account has been suspended how utterly lame to make it a requirement to login to your control panel or the forum. I would love to see a change in policy that would encourage the usage of the forum with out twisting my arm behind my back and making me submit to these mundane rules. However it is the best free service out there and I will continue to use it regardless but I do wish that you would exercise a little more professionalism in your hosting rules.

[descalzo]

You are getting something free. No charge.

All they ask is that you log into the Forum once every 31 days. You do not have to post.

You think that is too high a "price" to pay? How important is your site to you? Not worth 5 minutes every month?

[Anna]

I'd say it is a reasonable requirement, spend a few minutes each month to get yourself updated with what's going on, what maintenance may be planned etc.

We do not require posting, other hosts do that, and some even given a minimum amount posts per month you must reach to get/keep the hosting account.

I've also seen some free hosts measuring how active your site is in terms of visitors, not sure if they have to be unique but I'd guess they might need to be, which means if your site doesn't take of as you hope for, you may lose it (I've mainly seen this when ads are required though).

We do need some way to measure that you are actively using your account, otherwise we'd end up with several thousand accounts wasting space by just sitting there unattended, and unwanted. Without clearing out unused accounts regularly we'd not be able to offer free hosting under these conditions.

[nastus]

From when I was back in free hosting here many years ago, I found it odd as well - but then I compared x10 to all the other "free hosting" websites... It really wasnt comparable, you get so much more out of x10hosting and all you have to do is login to the forums once a month for like 5 minutes. Just go read some news, maybe post something - there is a great community around here!

[itnetworkdesigns12]

sure I do understand the policy but this is a place for feedback. So I posted the most obvious and I am sure there is a great community here my only thing is that suspending the account is a bit extreme. I have go fishing for logins and stuff and however nice you all are here I have a lot of things to do with my time other than go fighting to recover my account and using my marginal bandwith I only get 5 gigs I 4 spent I am on my last few next month I may loose my internet and when I get it back I would like to find that my account is still online and active. I don't really have much on it just a resume. It would be nice to send a letter every month that contained links to the bbs and a keep account active link maybe. but to just shut down someones site is well not very pleasant. If I go down for a couple of months then what I just get suspended because I can't access the internet. I have a baby and somethings are more important than paying for the service. but I would still like my resume to be online while down. I hope this information is useful to help make x10hosting even better. It is as you have all said the best free hosting available and don't get me wrong I love the service except not being able to email from php and that I do understand and even made a work around. I still get my email.

[contact.lvl928]

I agree, but i'm willing to account for that for free hosting.

[gustavo.m.braga98]

I love all!!!

[klinestudio75]

The monthly logins are a bit annoying but hey its free so its no big deal as far as I am concerned. its a small price to pay for something like this.

[Corey]

While I appreciate the feedback the monthly login will not be removed. You're getting something at absolutely zero cost and you have to compromise somewhere, this is it.

What I have a hard time with is understanding why people have such a problem taking literally 30 seconds of their time each month to keep their account active. We need to know who is using their account and who is not, this keeps the servers clean so they run smoothly.

Another thing I don't understand is how people have the time to write up a post complaining about the rule but don't have the time to log in. If you took the time you spent writing this post you could have logged in the forum once every month for at least 6 months.

I will *never* understand why people complain about such a simple and easy to follow rule when they get so much for nothing. I also don't understand why people agree to the terms then come and complain about them... maybe it's just me.

We will continue to enforce this "utterly lame" rule in order to keep your site online and working properly.

[hope2kc.org36]

i think it's reasonable, but yes, annoying