Originally posted by rtsoftware
Then one day, I asked about setting up a cgi script to count the number of downloads for my softwares and I started getting hell. All downloads for my zip files are stopped. Now, what is a software author without zip files or any other archive files?
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AMZ:
No, it means we are getting ready to delete your entire account.
The issue is not so much the script as what it is for. The AMZ Web Hosting network is designed in such a way that hosting download files is impossible. ZIP files cannot be accessed on FREE accounts via the web and remote hotlinking of images is also blocked on all AMZ Web Hosting FREE accounts.
Because of this, you would almost certainly would have to violate the external connection rules in your download counting script to access your download files that would have to be located on some other hosting provider for the obvious technical reasons given above.
Well, what do you expect from a free service? No free service will allow external linking to non-HTML files because it opens them up to warez and storage abuse. Before you rely on external services, such as download counters, you must ask yourself, "Is it really worth risking my free site for?" Do you really NEED to track your downloads?