Today was an incredible day. I had over 300 spams to my guestbook by a subdomain redirect from an unsuspecting .org who kindly supplied the suspect with the subdomain.
...to searches for many of the spammers favorite prescription drugs and so on.
Anyway, I have a probably short lived remedy by renaming every file in the spammers path.
But the question is how can I get some of that software for my visitors to get their own subdomain (free). It can be optional for a paid program too. I don't care.
I would love to offer my local people free (or paid) web space.
depends on your host really. probably one of the best ways, not necessarily the easiest or most valid in your case, is to set things up as a hosting company - get yourself a reseller account with an existing company or get a server set up with Helm, WHM or Plesk (or similar) and let the whcp software do the work for ya ;) theyll all let you sort out free or paid orders usually without human input, and you can choose features that way too. if you have a very accomodating host you might be able to sort something out with them of course.
thank you Jezmeister, I hadn't thought of that. I have 2 reseller accounts already and I have the *templates* but I haven't had much luck in understanding the process of getting them up and running. I haven't looked through HELM or Cpanel yet to see if there is an *automated* do it yourself sign up.
I'm looking for the "do it yourself" tripod clone. The .org mentioned has a subdomain do-it-yourself. http://chinchillas.org.
That's where the spammer got his sub to redirect from my guestbook.
Anyway I appreciate your help. I put things on the back burner all of the time. It is hopeful that I will run across a clone that isn't too cheesy.
thanks again Jezmeister for your assistance. It was greatly appreciated. -prescottw
I've never used WHM(&cPanel) or Plesk but I know Helm will let you do that and create the code for you to insert into your pages, take a look at the Helm demo and demo order form at http://helm.webhostautomation.com try taking a look for this "community architect" thing that chincillas.org is using, that might do what you want.
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Posted - 22 October 2005 : 14:39:03
