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1. Trap17 Offers 17 Mb Of Free Hosting - (13)

   Imagine that trap17 can offer 17 megs of free hosting to any member registered to this forums. I
   mean, 17 megs of space shoudn't be too much fot this huge hosting company like trap17. You would
   only need to geather 100 credits on forums, with ultra quality posts and you can get your 17 megs of
   space for at least one year. I think it's great idea, don't you? /dry.gif"
   style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=" ...

2. Warning About Ajuluke - Web Hosting (11)

   Ajulukefrancis ripped me off two gmail invites for hosting and he sent me to this site. He claimed
   that he personally had hosting accounts to offer....

3. Hosting Account Is Suspended - (10)
4. Somebody Uploaded A File Onto My Hosting Account [resolved] - (4)

   This has really scared me a little. I went into my cpanel to see a file that I did not install, in
   my File manage. It was called "SubVersion." Pretty confused what it's all about, but I found a
   link to the site http://subversion.tigris.org I don't know what it is, or how it got there.
   Can anybody PLEASE help me. Also, it seemed like somebody messed with one of my folders, and
   chom'd it to 755, when it was 777. This is really freaking me out a little, I think somebody
   has gotten ahold of my hosting account....

5. The State Of Trap17 - Some Things Are Getting Pretty Annoying Here (26)

   I, the founder of trap17, declare that this is one of the most hilarious topics ever made. Members
   please take your time to read this and do enjoy it. My special thanks to Buff and Velma. I
   personally ditest trap17 because of it's clutter, it's impossibility to navigate, and the
   fact that admins like buffalohelp haven't been banned yet, as he abuses his power to the point
   of threatening free speech. Trap17 is way to orienated on its appeal, and not it's content,
   which is what's really important. If you make something flashy but pointless, all your...

6. Simple Answer Needed [resolved] - redirest from trap17.com to .com (11)

   Just got my dot.com up for my site and was wondering. for the few people that I have not been able
   to get with that come to the site. they would be using the old address. also the adress of the site
   is on the web as echo_of_thunder.trap17.com and now as http://echoofthunder.com anyway to change
   that or just have to start over?...

7. Cpanel And Ftp Down, Hosting Up? - is that normal? (7)

   For the past 15-20 hours I haven't been able to access CPanel or connect to my domain through
   FTP but my website seems to work correctly. I was wondering why is that happening when we are
   talking about the same hosting account? I figure that a non-working CPanel could be due to problems
   in the CPanel framework but how about FTP access? shouldn't that be a direct access to my domain
   regardless of CPanel status? Right now the http access to the site works but the ftp access
   doesn't... thanks for any hint! ...

8. Have You Read The Rules? - TOS, privacy policy, hosting rules... (28)

   Dear hosted members, We have noticed that many members are knowingly or unknowingly breaking some
   basic rules of posting and hosting at T17. This has resulted in a lot of spam posts which in turn
   lead to more unnecessary work for moderators and admins, 'defacement' of the foums and
   sometimes even banning of the concerned member. The rules are there and you are also there. But
   have you read them? Usually, if you have read the rules and understood them, it is not expected
   that you break them voluntarily. This however can be expected of some unscrupulous eleme...

9. Transferring Files From One Host To Another - Take my site to trap17 (9)

   As I said, I had to move my web site away from Trap17 temporarily because I had ran out of disk
   space. Now, when my upgrade is finalised, I would like to ask for a little assistance. The provider
   I will be moving my site from, back to Trap17 also uses Cpanel, and the admin let me know to do a
   backup and that backup could be simply transferred via FTP to my new provider. The backup includes
   all my files and MySQL data, in other words, the whole web site. It is in a .tar.gz format. How do I
   get all this across? Do I 'unzip' the file and then transfer them bit by bi...

10. If We Have Negative Hosting Credits, Are They Pushed Over To The New Mycent System? - (7)

    Hello I have signed up for the MyCent new system, and I was wondering if my negative balance here is
    transferred? When I signed up, I was like 23 credits in the red! I made a good post and that
    dropped to 13 or so, and today, checking computing host, my negative credits have not been moved
    over /biggrin.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin.gif" /> so am
    I therefore on a new, fresh slate, or has the whole thing not worked (aka my forum account not
    linked to the computinghost one?). I notice my balance is 700 mycents, is that from the bi...

11. Credit System V3 And Multiple Accounts, Trap17 And Astahost Forums - (12)

    Credit System v3 General Information Regarding Multiple Accounts, Trap17 and AstaHost forums FAQ Q
    I have Trap17 and AstaHost forum accounts. How does myCENT work and can I transfer from one to
    another to pool my credits? A If you use the SAME email address for both forums, Billing and
    Support will automatically merge your credit balance. There's no need for worry. Q What about
    the policy of not having multiple hosting accounts? A The current Credit System allows multiple
    hosting account IF you can keep up the credits. Since the credit balance is centralize...

12. How To Transfer Files Directly From My Computer To The Trap17 Account - (8)

    Hi! I've been hosted in trap17 for almost 4 months now. In the beginning, I tried to setup a
    WebDisk to directly transfer files from my computer to my hosting account, but I didn't manage
    to make it work. It might have been from my Vista's weird firewall settings, or my ISP settings,
    I have no idea. Anyway, I used the File Manager since, as I don't have a lot of files on my
    site. Needless to say, it is really annoying when I do just some little changes and I have to go
    again through CPanel, FileManager, UploadFile... pffff So my question to you... How...

13. Another Suggestion - Domains and hosting (6)

    I went on the billing site, to approximate how much much my hosting would cost a year and it came
    out to $39.71 USD. The thing that REALLY drove the price up on this was addon domains (I chose to
    have 5 for $23.80). This was more than hlaf of the yearly cost. Are there plans to keep the prices
    for the addon domains the same, or if they will be lowered? Here is my plan right now: QUOTE
    Description Price Linux Regular Hosting - Logic Plan
    (ineedtocheckhowmuchthisplancostsandwhattheaddonspricesare.com) » DISK SPACE: 1000MB » BANDWIDTH
    (Transfer Limit per Month): 10...

14. What Is Vps Web Hosting? - Virtual Private Server and Hosting (6)

    This is probably a dumb question, but what exactly is VPS hosting? After reading up on wikipedia I
    found out it's essentially a server with a bunch of split operating systems on it. The article
    also said generally a VPS hosting service gives its users superlevel-access so they could run any
    software on the Operating System. Is that true? If it is VPS hosting would be very useful to me and
    my clan because we need a dedicated system to run a server im developing (writing it in .NET). So I
    would need an updated Windows XP OS to run it on. But for some reason I'm dou...

15. The Matter Of Hosting Credits - Got a question? Find the answers! (53)

    Many members ask about the matter of hosting credits. Trap17 staff have explained hosting credits
    clearly on the site, but if you're not paying attention, have any questions, or need more, here
    are some points that will answer your questions. Due to a few user comments, I have had to add a
    few more points, and edited some previous points to be a bit more clearer. This is in addition to
    the additions mods have made to the posts, which I greatly thank you for. 1. READ THE FORUMS BEFORE
    YOU POST A CREDIT QUESTION!!! How many times have the Admins of Trap17 explained h...

16. Question About Hosting After Credit System 3.0 - (6)

    This is something that I thought of today.. Once the credit system 3.0 is fully rolled out(Not just
    like now where it's running but not completed) what will happen with our current sites? Like,
    do we need to start backing up everything now for a server change or something, or will our current
    hosting package be automatically rolled over? Just wanting to make sure that I am not going to lose
    all of my information and all once the transformation is complete. Also, what if we end up doing
    an upgrade later? Will our current site be "copied" into the new host? Or wil...

17. Language In Trap17 Free Web Hosting - (2)

    Would someone teach me the lauguage usage in Trap17 free web hosting? In the TOS(terms of services)
    of trap17 free web hosting, http://www.trap17.com/forums/index.php?sho...amp;#entry40137 "All
    websites must be in English to qualify for free hosting. We do this to ensure that Accounts are
    legal and have permissable contents." But I found at a review site
    http://www.free-webhosts.com/reviews/Trap17.php that "They are amazing. Non-English sites ARE
    allowed, except you have to have an English overlook page detailing your site so they know what it
    is about." Which w...

18. Google Blocks Trap17? - (8)

    Hello. Me and innosia have tried adding our links to Google's URL crawl page, but Google wont
    verify. He says it works for the paid Trap17 hosting, but not the free. I've tried Yahoo and
    Google and they both will not verify. I've tried adding the meta tag, and file to the cPanel
    File Manager and tried re-verifying but theres no use. I've tried refreshing, reloading the
    page, clearing my cookies but Google says server timeout. Is Trap17 blocking Google, or is Google
    blocking Trap17? Help with be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Sky...

19. Problem Concerning Credits Reduced - Reduced when I created a hosting account (12)

    My free web hosting account request for the second package was approved, which means that at the
    time of the request (the topic itself) or the topic, however you want to name it, i had something
    over 37 credits, positive and green of course, and when the admin actually approved the request, and
    we all know that exactly when we see some changes on the request topic title, for instance, the
    addiction of the words: "denied", "approved", et cetera. The point is that when the admin approved
    today i had about 45 or 47 credits, and i created then the hosting account that only...

20. Trap17 Tos? - (11)

    Hi, I was wondering if there is or isn't a certain TOS for trap17 free hosting packaged. For
    example, can we host porn, or link to it. Can we host warez, or link to it. Things like that. Anyone
    that could help me? Thanks in advance!...

21. The System Doesn't Let Me Apply For Hosting Upgrade [resolved] - (4)

    I applied in July for hosting, here . I got it, everything was ok for the last 3 months. Now I
    gathered more than 30 credits (thanks to bthaxor's giveaway partially) and I wanted to apply for
    Hosting Upgrade. I went to the Requests Forums, and when I clicked on the link for the Request Form
    here I got this error message: QUOTE The error returned was: Our records indicate that you
    have already submitted an application. Please wait until that application is approved or denied
    before submitting another one. Is it something I did wrong? I hope it is so, and...

22. Hosting Credits Problem? [resolved] - (9)

    Hi. Last night I had HOSTING CREDITS : 29.67 DAYS credits. Now I have HOSTING CREDITS : 7.06 DAYS.
    How on earth did they get reduced that quickly? I am so confused. Any help please?...

23. Trap17 Email Spam Scam - Warning - (12)

    I got a interesting email today from marcy4u208@gmail.com QUOTE My dear,i am well pleased to
    contact you after going through your profile at www.trap17.com on my search for genuine
    frienship,please contact me on this idd (marcy4u208@gmail.com)so that i can send you my photo and
    tell you about myself,Mercy I sent a reply saying I don't know this site /laugh.gif"
    style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":lol:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />, but it should be
    interesting if I get a response about some spam related things, but I thought I let members know
    about thi...

24. Help With Hosting - Cant Get Anything To Work [resolved] - (6)

    Hi, im sure im being stupid and missing something obvious. But i cant get my site to work /sad.gif"
    style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" /> The original index.html page
    says to put pages in "public_html" But when i do that, and try to access the page, i see the
    original index.html file. any suggestions, sorry, cant really be more specific, i dont really
    understand whats going on! :S...

25. The Trap17 Affiliates - (3)

    Hi, I thought I'd make this post because a lot of members of Trap17 link to each others website,
    what I thought would be good is that anyone who wanted to become part of the "affiliates" group post
    there web adress here, then we make a list of all the adresses and everyone who applied link to all
    the sites who applied and then we get a big chain of linking members, when I say link I mean in the
    footer or on a special links page, blogroll whatever so long as the links can be found somewhere
    easily accessable on your site, the more places the better! EDIT: You can ...

26. Terminating Hosting Problem - (1)

    Well, a few days ago I terminated my hosting using the Credit System 2.0, but it still has me in the
    group on the forums, which is making my credits go down for nothing. I need this fixed please....

27. Hosting Problem [resolved] - 403 Forbidden Error occurs whenever I try to access my site (22)

    First off, let me say that I have spent considerable effort and time going through the forums
    seeking solutions for this problem. I have even gone as far as to seek help from the Xisto Live
    support team (they suggested I wait 2 hours and then get back to them. Well I did that, and there
    has been no change, and live support is now down). I've also tried changing permissions on both
    files and folders via Cpanel, but to no avail. I still end up with the same error: QUOTE
    Forbidden You don't have permission to access /index.php on this server. Additionally, a 4...

28. A Couple Of Doubts - Regarding ssh and gzip, and those hosting credits loool (4)

    Hello, First of all, thanks for accepting my request for hosting. I do, however, have some
    questions about it: When I first checked out trap17's website, I noticed you provide shell
    access... Is this really true? If it is, would I be able to run, for example, an irc bot with the
    account? Another thing... Your web server does not gzip content. This causes more traffic to be
    generated, etc etc... Is there any chance to activate this feature? The question regarding credits
    is a fairly simple one. I'd just like to know how you assure posting quality.. I mean, the c...

29. I Am Looking Into Going With A Paid Hosting Service And Trap17 Has Been Good To Me So Whats The Paid Hosting's Website? - (7)

    I am looking at different solutions for paid hosting and I know that that trap17 has some connection
    with a paid hosting company and I would like more info about it because I like the way this place is
    run and it has been a good place to have my website. So what is the site for the paid hosting?...

30. Trap17 Banners And Stuff? - (2)

    I wanted to add a small banner link thing for trap17.com on my website, and I knew there was a
    thread about it, but I lost it, and I tried searching for it and didnt find it. Is there anyone who
    knows that thread and can give me the link to it? Thanks!...