Lunarpages.com is moving to new location!

[Max]

Lunarpages.com will move its servers to a new location beginning tomorrow. Our own new server facility is ready. Its time to relocate our servers. They are currently co-located in Huntsville, Alabama and will be moved to Los Angeles, Califonia.

We are backboned to UUnet Speed should not change.

We will offer CGI, SSI, MySQL and FTP access when the move is completed.

Your websites will not be down at any moment during the move..

/Max

[Dedix]

php, mail function will be supported?

[Max]

will not give access to any sendmail or other mail functions due the high abuse level.

[Dedix]

it doesn't sound good for me :(
thanks anyway

[Max]

Most ISPs and webhost does not offer mailing capabilities for free.. Those who do will probably not have their service up too long before any spammer send out millions of emails thru their servers.. that could really bog down just about any network or server

/Max

[Dedix]

most, but not all...
e.g. f2s.com supports it for free
btw, i hate spam, and isn't that the casue why i would like mail be supported
just my site has registration, when somebody registers for an account, then will get the infos via e-mail

[Ted S]

Dedix, you like most of the people in this forum are the perfect reason why mail access should be allowed.... chances are you would never spam, never even send a bulk mailing. However, not everyone is like you and there are many people ho would signup for as many accounts as it takes as manyt imes as they had to to spam messages out to wherever. Hopefully sendmail will be offered in the near future but for now it's just not secure enough.

[AlabamaMan]

100 MB with FTP and fast server sound beyound good to me :)

[Dedix]

Ted Sindzinski: okay, i got it, and agree, but is there any other way to send mail through your server? and can i connect to freesql.org?

[Ted S]

For now sendmail and stmp will not be anabled so you would need an external stmp mail server to send any messages. We will be offering free email accounts for our users but for the time being there will be no way to send email through scripts.

As for sql connections, I have installed php with mysql access. Our upgraded accounts will include a mysql database to use and our lower level accounts will work with any other standard mysql server.

[Dedix]

thank you, but if so i have to wait until you support mail sending through scripts :(

[niv]

you know Dedix, you can get a very very very very cheap host instead... just as little as 1 measly buck a month, depending on the host and their plan, check WHT, they've got great deals going on all the time, and they discuss whether or not to go for this host because of bad support, etc.: www.webhostingtalk.com

[Dedix]

thanks needcgispace, i'm going to check out this site

[niv]

you're welcome ;)

[LastActionHero]

Originally posted by Ted Sindzinski
For now sendmail and stmp will not be anabled so you would need an external stmp mail server to send any messages. We will be offering free email accounts for our users but for the time being there will be no way to send email through scripts.

As for sql connections, I have installed php with mysql access. Our upgraded accounts will include a mysql database to use and our lower level accounts will work with any other standard mysql server.

Why not have a strict bandwith limit. Then sendmail can also come into the picture. Suppose a bulkmailer send 1000's of mails he will overshoot his bandwith limit and you can immediately cancel his account.

[Ted S]

THe problem with bandwidth limits for spam is two fold.

1) Updating a bandwidth count every 30 seconds or so in order to prevent spam would most likely kill any server.

2) Email messages take up only a few K of bandwidth each time, so someone could easily send tens to hundreds of thousands of messages from one account.

I am however looking at other options...