000webhost, you make me laugh.. xD

Discussion in 'Web Hosting' started by Wulkanen, Dec 27, 2010.

  1. #1
    So I have an automatic blog on 000webhost.com which has been running by itself for some months now without me taking care of it.

    Today I logged in and saw that I almost had 1000 articles published on it, I also saw that I had around 350 unapproved comments.

    My first thought was to delete all of them since some of them were spam, but then I though "who cares", it's just an automatic blog and maybe it benefits from all the comments. Since the links are nofollow anyways.

    So I decided to publish ALL of them. And who would have known that the verry same second I did that, 000webhost sent me an automatic message saying:

    "Our system detected that your account MyWebsite.com tried to send mass mail.
    Account was suspended, please contact our staff from http://members.000webhost.com/ with explanation why you have sent mass mail which is strictly prohibited by our Terms Of Service: http://www.000webhost.com/includes/tos.php

    Account will be unsuspended only if you will contact us, do not reply to this email
    "

    So, my final conclusion is: Don't mass approve comments on 000webhost, you will get suspended... Hope they respond to my email..
     
    Wulkanen, Dec 27, 2010 IP
  2. elicitservers

    elicitservers Peon

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    I wonder what their limits are, considering with a paid host it's usually around 300-500 e-mails per hour per domain. They should rather look at a monthly volume or weekly stats of e-mails, then suspend accounts based on that, but not based in a few minutes time. Please keep us posted let us know how it turns out :)
     
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  3. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

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    #3
    Ye, I will.
    It was not even a matter of minutes, I got suspended the verry second I clicked the "Approve comments" button. =)
     
    Wulkanen, Dec 27, 2010 IP
  4. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

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    #4
    Update to the thread, they fixed it. =)

    ************************
    REPLY HAS BEEN ADDED:
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    Hello,

    We have unsuspended your account MyWebsite.com

    Thank You,
    Thorsten

    Volunteer Staff
    www.000webhost.com
     
    Wulkanen, Dec 28, 2010 IP
  5. Sxperm

    Sxperm Notable Member

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    #5
    Do they have any "limitation" stated in their term of use?

    **Just see the OP replied with problem solved. :( Ignore my question.
     
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  6. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

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    #6
    Not any specific limitation, but the thing that chocked me was that I got suspended for
    mass MAILING when I only approved my comments. I don't know how comments is related to mailing.
    Do I mail my comments to my site lol? :p
     
    Wulkanen, Dec 28, 2010 IP
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    Sxperm Notable Member

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    I am not sure but they might mean about "ping" instead of mailing. Your ping may be a same of their definition about "mailing". lol
     
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  8. ruzler

    ruzler Banned

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    #8
    Are you talking about their free hosting?
     
    ruzler, Dec 28, 2010 IP
  9. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

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    Yes, their paid hosting is on hosting24.
     
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  10. elicitservers

    elicitservers Peon

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    #10
    Does WP e-mail the commenter to say that a comment has been approved?
     
    elicitservers, Dec 28, 2010 IP
  11. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

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    #11
    Not what I know of.
    Everything is set on default, so it shouldn't do that.
     
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  12. FW-David

    FW-David Peon

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    #12
    Hmm, that should be an issue then. It is considered "mass mailing" if you do it all at once. You should try a VPS or something along those lines.
     
    FW-David, Dec 28, 2010 IP
  13. SimThePhpCoder

    SimThePhpCoder Well-Known Member

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    #13
    Almost the same thing happened to me, but it was unrelated to WP. I was coding one of the final features for a new php script I am developing. I was coding the Admin Mass Email feature. Of course I am the only registered user. I got about 3 accounts using different email addresses. I forgot to add the IF statement to check if the form was being submitted when mass emailing, I visited the page about 6x without SUBMITTING THE FORM cause I was getting a message saying "Emails sent..". Then BOOM 404. I was like WTF... I looked into it and I was suspended for MASS EMAILING MYSELF...
     
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  14. HackerFinn

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    I just thought I would mention that it would be better, to develop your mailing scripts and such on a personal development server. :)
    You could always set up a local web server and mail server. :)
     
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  15. Wulkanen

    Wulkanen Well-Known Member

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    So you revived a 700 days old thread to post a comment that is not eve related to the thread?
    I never had any mailing list, I had an article database....
     
    Wulkanen, Dec 2, 2012 IP