PHP Changes Explanation

[Corey]

I'm going to post this so everyone understands WHY we made the recent changes to PHP. Let me start by saying this is not something we wanted to do, anyone who knows PHP and servers can appreciate how much coding had to go into making this work and it's all 99% automated besides approving the accounts. We have tons of other things we could better spend our time on. ;)

x10 is fairly popular and we get between 400-600 sign-ups EVERY day. That is a lot of accounts! For a regular paid host they could only hope to get that many accounts in a whole year! So please think about that when you compare x10 to paid hosting and other hosts. We've spent 3 years developing and learning here on x10, I can guarantee you that if you threw 400 accounts each day to any other host that gives you as many features as we do they'd be down and gone within a week. I'd say our servers and everything handle this quite well and we've had minimum downtime considering the circumstances.

With those hundreds of accounts each day there are a good amount of spammers, phishing accounts, mail bomb scripts, etc... These types of users ruin it for everyone else because they can cause tons of issues with a server very quickly. So to limit this and be fair to the people who genuinely want to create a website we decided to implement the current PHP system. It may take you a little longer up front to get everything working the way you want but it will be worth it in the long run when you have a working web site that doesn't go down or have issues caused by these other abusers.

Most of the abusers want an account as fast as possible and then upload a file or two and on they go with their abuse. By putting this system in place we are adding extra steps to screen these people out. The genuine people who want a website will go through with out a problem where as these abusive people will most likely find it too much work and not even try.

So please understand, this makes more work for us too and we're only doing it to better the hosting services here. If there was some way to automatically tell what each and every person's intentions were we'd be all set but we don't have that ability. We have to do what we think is best for the whole community even if it means asking you to spend a few extra minutes reading and applying for an upgraded version of PHP ;).

If anyone has any questions feel free to ask.

-Corey

[Corey]

Login to your account panel: http://x10hosting.com/login with your FORUM user\pass. Once logged in there is a section on the left to request the new version of PHP. Request Version 2(Intermediate).

-Corey

[Bryon]

hey i Change but i again got error why?
this is my site http://forums.pizzaweb.elementfx.com/

It takes time to update once your application is accepted for the version change.

You need to pay attention and read the information given to you throughout the process.

[CrownVictoriaCop]

Originally, my board had some problems with PHP after the switch, but after my application was accepted this morning for an upgrade to Intermediate, it's fine.

[grjopa]

I am impressed by the amount of traffic x10hosting gets. Its great that all the administrators are protecting against internet hooligans

[Goran]

it that reason why my site don't work!? and what should i do, wwitch of php i mush chouse to make it back and work again http://www.crows.exofire.net
PLS HELP

[GamingX]

I think it was a great idea to implement this, we don't want the whole servers down with spamming and abusing do we? Anyway I really hope this serves the purpose of preventing abusers....

[mandi]

Thanks for the explanation Corey! I think the small things you ask from us are WELL worth the great service you provide! :happysad:

[keshab]

thank you..! for the great effort for making X10 so successful,
further expect a very long association with this community...

[slbob]

i switched to intermediate when the changes were first made because my site gave me an eval() error. Now, a few weeks later i'm being given a similar message, and im not sure what to do.

Fatal error: SUHOSIN - Use of eval is forbidden by configuration in /home/bob/public_html/themes/CS_CoD/theme.php(313) : eval()'d code on line 313

my site is http://rus.pcriot.com

any help you could give me would be great. and btw, i agree that these problems every once in a while are well worth the hosting service you give us on a regular basis