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Recently, several accounts on the server were found to be compromised and were using up large amounts of resources to do malicious activities. Please do not let this happen to your account.

The standard advise applies:

*Be sure that you have a secure password that cannot be easily guessed and does not consist solely of dictionary-based words.
*Do not use the same password on Space Socket as you use elsewhere.
*Change your password regularly -- it doesn't have to be frequent but it should be changed every now and then so that if the bad guys get your password somehow, it'll be outdated.
*Update whatever software you use to the latest version as soon as it is released.

To anyone thinking about attempting break our Terms of Service, we are now under a system where banned users lose Space Dollars -- specifically, s0.10 per hour they are banned. To have a hosting account, you must have at least s0.00. Otherwise, your hosting account is terminated and you will be unable to create another account until your balance is non-negative again. Therefore, watch your posts. If you post useless material, you will be banned.

Space Socket provides users with access to an SMTP server from which e-mails can be easily sent such as through webmail, through PHP's mail() function and through your own e-mail client. Recently, we have uncovered abuse of this feature with a user using their account to send out large volumes of spam. Not only is this illegal in the US (where the server is located) but it also wastes server resources which many of you have probably noticed in the excessive downtime in the past few months.

That account has since been removed. With this incident in mind, all outgoing e-mail activity will be, from now on, closely monitored. Anyone sending out e-mails will be scrutinized for spam. Note that this does not mean you shouldn't use Space Socket to send out legitimate e-mails (such as registration confirmation or announcements) -- only that if you decide to use our server to spam others, you will be permanently banned and reported.

Here's a way for users to get free hosting without regularly posting to the forum. Sure, the "Tiny" package allows you do that but it's only for small sites. For all the other hosting plans, you have to make posts to earn Space Dollars for hosting...until now.

If you like to write about science and/or technology, and you have at least 50 quality posts on this forum, you may apply to be a blog writer for the SSD Blog: http://blog.spacesocket.com Those accepted for the position are expected to make more or less 1 blog post per week. It's acceptable to miss a few weeks if you normally make quality (useful/interesting) posts the other weeks. There's no minimum words-per-post requirements. It really all depends on what you are writing about. However, if the post is just a link/quote from another website then that would be unacceptable. A followup summary AND your own view on the topic must be expressed in at least a paragraph or so. Of course, original research is also welcome. The posts may be location-centric if there's plenty to talk about relating to your hometown or country.

So how much will you get paid? Depending on the quality of your blog posts, your salary may vary. Starting pay is s1.00 per month. Unless you are really stretching the minimum requirements (like many on the forum), odds are, that number will go up, possibly significantly. If you make quality posts that really exemplify the subject being written on and/or make more posts than the minimum, that number could potentially go up to s15.00 per month which is enough to pay for the Nova plan. Speaking of which, an alternative requirement to the 400 forum posts for the Nova plan is 30 quality blog posts.

Ready to leave the forum posting behind and start blogging? There are a few minimum requirements for the position.

You must have at least 50 posts on the forum (as mentioned above).
You must know how to write English fluently (that doesn't mean college level English, just good old understandable English).
You are willing to do some research and experimenting with the topics you write on.

If you meet the above requirements, then you are eligible to write posts for the SSD. To apply, either reply here or send me a PM (http://www.spacesocket.com/forum/private...d&uid=277) answering the following questions:

1. Do you meet the listed requirements?
2. What subject(s) do you intend to blog about?
   

If you need a LOT of server resources along with shell and you are willing to seriously contribute to this forum, then Space Socket provides the Nova hosting plan.

Nova (400 posts minimum, s0.50 / day)
2 GB space
30 GB bandwidth
SSH / Shell
Subversion
+ everything every other plan provides

If you have at least 400 posts, then you may request the Nova plan. To do so, follow these step:

1. Pay Initial "Setup Fee"
Like all the other accounts, there is an initial fee equivalent of 30 days of hosting. In this case, that would be s15.00. Pay that to anyone on the forum that is listed as an Administrator using the "Donate" feature. That would be the following users:

krakjoe, waqar and North

2. Make a Request for Upgrade
Go to the Nova Requests forum and make a post requesting your account be upgraded to the Nova plan: http://www.spacesocket.com/forum/forum-40.html

Use this template to make the request:

Replace everything necessary and make a thread in the requests forum containing only text of this form. Your thread will NOT be visible to anyone else except for administrators and moderators.

3. Wait for a Response
We will approve up to one Nova account per month at the end of each month. If there are multiple valid requests, the one that is approved will be determined by random.

Note that moderators and administrators of the forum may reply to your thread asking for more information, making comments or determining that the request is valid. If there are questions, you are expected to respond.

If you're request is DENIED for whatever reason (not qualified, someone else was approved instead, etc.), then you may make another request the following month.

Optional: Downgrade Your Account
If you find that you no longer need a Nova account or that you can't afford it, you may downgrade it at any time using the Hosting script: http://www.spacesocket.com/forum/host.php If you need it to be upgraded again however, you will have to follow the same process as you did the first time.