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Just a quick question Is GD library available on the free hosting accounts?

When it's a slow day in the office try this trick on some hapless victims computer.. Flipside Prank Demo

Are web site developers here allowed to use the Yahoo "pipes" service or is it classed as using a proxy server and therefore forbidden.?

Shame of course is still of course a terminal disease in some parts of the world and tonight several people in the UK are suffering from this most terrible of afflictions. Can you spot where this classic smash and grab robbery goes wrong? http://www.itv.com/anglia/armed-robbery-footage07521/...

Should a web hosting provider terminiate the account of a magic shop that provides information and equipment related to escapology as the content and products being sold may be used for illegal purposes?

Smoke and mirrors for the most to appease the gullible IMHO, Google stoppped allowing its ads on blatent abusers years ago. So they just swapped ad providers for the likes of ad.velmedia.net so no changes there. Will they extend the ban to sites indexing the content of copyright infringing...

Code quiz Which of these scripts is in violation of a TOS? Bonus kudos if you explain whose TOS and why. $search = "something" /// predefined or site visitor input from form field ////Code A $url="http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?vq=$search=include&max-results=50"; $ch =...

Here's a trick that every lone webmaster should find useful. A watchdog script to tell you when your web site becomes unavailable to vistors. Most web hosts are pretty good with well over 90% server 'uptimes' are to be found across the Internet, however their responsibilty stops where your code...

Hi guys, I know and accept that us users of the (normally excellent) free hosting service as provided by yourselfs are the lowest priority for technical support issues. However we still have feelings and it would be nice if somebody higher up the support chain could take a minute to explain to...

Meanwhile around the web... Scattered reports are coming in of several Free Hosting providers suffering from DDOS attacks, details are scarce at this time but intial reports seem to indicate their IP ranges are being caught in the wikileaks crossfire.

Hi guys, Stoli ftp is not working, according to my crude logs it appears to have been off several hours. Other than that site is up and can access Cpanel but ftp is thrown straight out. PS:Wish all a Happy Hogswatch just in case I'm not online

One of the recurring problems found by users of the free servers is that because they have been used in the past to host sub-domains that were responsible for causing trouble across the web such as spamming, several large web companies actively prohibit connections to x10 sites. This is why...

When your site becomes succesful and the monthly traffic allowence for your web site is getting close to the limits but you don't want to upgrade just yet here are a few things that may help. Put all your javascript into external .js files. This means that they are stored in the visitors...

Using your web site hosting server to retrieve and mashup data from other web sites is rapidly becoming an "Old School" technique. ( and of course some web hosts are making it nigh on impossible ) So there is a growing trend nowdays to move this CPU intensive work away from the central server...

The new range of mobile tablet devices such as Ipads, plus an increasing number of cellphones are spatially aware and have the ability to display regular HTML web browser information in either potrait or landscape formats, switching between these modes of operation dynamically as a result...

Using the built in PHP mail() function here at X10 is all very well for most people but sometimes users run into the problem of mail 'bouncing' from the likes of Hotmail and Yahoo. This is because of the shared servers previous misuse at the hands of spammers has resulted in them being...

UK job search site run by volunteers needs link exchanges plus... Would you be interested in having the power to display real job vacancies for one or more towns that are updated several times a day on your web site? Our site is still in its 'beta' state while iron the bugs out of the process...

Hi guys, Our apologies for using excessive server resources, it's difficult to know what level is acceptable without some form of feedback. If we reduce the workload and freaquency of our PHP server side scripting then could we please have 'allow_url_fopen' set to ON again? It would be...

Is anybody having trouble sending email to @yahoo addreses using PHP eg:mail($yourEmail,$subject,$message,$headers) from the free hosting servers? Script my end apparently not an issue, Gmail recieving all messages sent as are several other places but anything ending @yahoo.com or...

Probably the worst part of a web designers job is having to deal with the small print of various web sites 'Terms & Conditions of Use'. This is allowed, that's not and of course the classic 'terms subject to change without warning' catch all clause for when you do find a nice loophole. Of...