I need to password protect my blog for members, how?

[T Pat]

Tyranni
My advice to you would be don't trust godaddy, your going to get fucked good sooner or later.
I chose to ignore all the warnings I read on this board about godaddy and they screwed me out of a parked domain I had (Tijuana-Escorts) I had closed the sight and the escort service down (it takes bigger balls than I have to run an escort service) parked it was making me $50 a month at Sedo, so now you've been warned about godaddy.
I use verotel on one of my sites and their billing system is a friggin mystery to me every time I screw with it I break it and have to ask Sparky to fix it for me..
My suggestion to you would be get hosting at Colo-Cation and ask Sparky to straighten it all out for you.

[Tyranni]

Originally Posted by T Pat

Tyranni
My advice to you would be don't trust godaddy, your going to get fucked good sooner or later.
I chose to ignore all the warnings I read on this board about godaddy and they screwed me out of a parked domain I had (Tijuana-Escorts) I had closed the sight and the escort service down (it takes bigger balls than I have to run an escort service) parked it was making me $50 a month at Sedo, so now you've been warned about godaddy.
I use verotel on one of my sites and their billing system is a friggin mystery to me every time I screw with it I break it and have to ask Sparky to fix it for me..
My suggestion to you would be get hosting at Colo-Cation and ask Sparky to straighten it all out for you.

Thanks for the warnings, I have seen a few about godaddy and experienced some annoyances with them, but I've been able to straighten it out in general, albeit after costly long distance calls talking to reps who make rude innuendos about the type of site I run.

I need a cheap host because I don't have a huge member base yet, but I run a video members site that uploads at least, 500mb of content per week. I retain pretty well but it is tough getting the word out there for an indy site when you do it all yourself including the modelling, photography, video editing, etc. Someone at godaddy just saved my ass by offering me a year of hosting for $53.00 plus 50GB of space, exactly what I needed at that moment, as I was running up very high bills in additional space...so I'm sort of committed. If I start bringing in more revenue, or find a host with cheap storage space, I'll definitely consider it if they start treating me badly or when the year is out.

Verotel is kind of sensitive, and it was a bit difficult to set up for my small brain, I found webstream so much more simple and user friendly. I haven't spoken with Sparky, I got Paul and Marco so far, and they've been pretty helpful.

[Tyranni]

for some reason I can't edit, only delete. Oops I thought you meant sparky was with Verotel. Your banner looked cute so I'll check them out and compare it for my needs, thanks

[SirMoby]

Originally Posted by T Pat

Tyranni
My advice to you would be don't trust godaddy, your going to get fucked good sooner or later.
I chose to ignore all the warnings I read on this board about godaddy and they screwed me out of a parked domain I had (Tijuana-Escorts) I had closed the sight and the escort service down (it takes bigger balls than I have to run an escort service) parked it was making me $50 a month at Sedo, so now you've been warned about godaddy.
I use verotel on one of my sites and their billing system is a friggin mystery to me every time I screw with it I break it and have to ask Sparky to fix it for me..
My suggestion to you would be get hosting at Colo-Cation and ask Sparky to straighten it all out for you.

No way Pat. For every person I hear getting fucked by Go Daddy I hear of 1 person that hasn't gotten fucked yet. That's only 50% of the people getting fucked. You over exaggerate by saying it will happen to everyone when it seems like it only happens to every other one

Sorry to hear your story mate.

[Useless]

More importantly, from their TOS

You agree not to engage in unacceptable use of any Services, which includes, without limitation, use of the Services to: (i) disseminate or transmit unsolicited messages, chain letters or unsolicited commercial email; (ii) disseminate or transmit any material that, to a reasonable person may be abusive, obscene, pornographic, defamatory, harassing, grossly offensive, vulgar, threatening or malicious;

[Tyranni]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

More importantly, from their TOS

that is only for their free hosting, not for their paid hosting. Godaddy reps know exactly what I do and have been to my site and commented on the nature in a joking manner. I read somewhere the TOS for the paid hosting and it made no mention of taking issue with pornographic material.

In other news, I wrote to them and serendipity is htaccess protectable, but they won't help me out with it, and they said I can't move it to my member's folder.|confused|