mdshare Posted November 9, 2008 Share Posted November 9, 2008 From Rick (phparcade) I have been informed by hostgator.com that they will take down any site on there shared hosting that is a games site , including arcades. I highly recommend not getting their hosting. This came as a surprise to me, when I went to ask them about a problem I was seeing with their hosting. This is a chatlog that rick had with HostGator earlier today (1:12:44 PM) Douglass Gr: All I can say is that we don't even allow game sites on shared servers. (1:12:56 PM) Douglass Gr: I can't assist here. (1:12:56 PM) rick: arcade sites? (1:13:01 PM) rick: its not a gaming site (1:13:14 PM) Douglass Gr: What kind of games? (1:13:20 PM) rick: arcade games (1:13:24 PM) rick: phparcadesite.com (1:13:27 PM) rick: is my demo (1:13:49 PM) Douglass Gr: That's what I mean. We don't allow them. When they're found they typically get suspended. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdshare Posted November 9, 2008 Author Share Posted November 9, 2008 Re: Chat Log - HostGator - Be carefull Follow up mail from HostGator: Hello, I am Thomas Spear from HostGator. We recently received some of your customers in our live chat to inquire about the email that was sent out regarding an apparent change in the ToS with respects to arcade scripts. I want to first apologize on behalf of everyone here at HostGator that the information provided to you by Douglas Gr was incorrect. We at HostGator believe that many of our customers like to run a wide variety of sites, from blogs, to businesses, and even sites for fun. In that belief, our founder, Brent Oxley decided that as long as a php script does not require any sort of streaming to or from the server, in order to run, then that script is ok to be used on our servers. In checking with our security team, who handle abuse complaints as well as server load issues due to buggy scripts, myself as well as my supervisor, William Bl. have verified that your script does not necessarily require streaming. The exact words used to describe what is allowed is as follows: "Single player flash games which completely download to the client computer before being rendered by Flash are ok". I want to assure you personally that this confusion will be investigated fully by a member of the supervisors team and we will take any necessary action to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. Once again, I sincerely apologize for the confusion that this has caused to both yourself and to your customers, and can only ask that you please provide the full chat transcript from your recent chat with Doug to [email protected] along with a copy of the chat transcript from tigoon which has been recently posted on your forums, so that our supervisors can see exactly what transpired. If you have any questions or further concerns, please feel free to reply back to me directly and I will be sure to answer you as soon as I can. If I am unable to answer you myself, I will pass your email along to the supervisor on shift for further information. Thank you very much for your time. Thomas Spear HostGator.com Level 2 Chat Support HostGator.com Level 1 Linux Admin HostGator.com Transfers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shedh Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 Re: Chat Log - HostGator - Be carefull hmmm i thought people already knew bwt this, that was the main reason my game (CrimsonVille.com) was taken offline, Hostgator stopped my Crons from working and since have not had it restarted, so i moved all my sites to the Lunarpages Dedicated Servers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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