Getting full control over domains registered here

[arenlor]

Due to the recent restrictions on PHP scripts I'm considering changing hosts even though this is a great host (if it wasn't for the restriction on chat scripts and auto-refreshing scripts I'd be staying) and I was wondering how I would be able to get access to my domains registered through you so that I could use them on different hosting and renew them through the company you registered them through.

EDIT: A sort of PS, I keep getting LONG delays on this forum (the rest of the site loads beautifully as usual) and I got an error pop up the one time about, and I know I'm messing up the wording, Allocated Memory Exceeded tried to allocate ##### memory blah blah blah, I'm sure you know what it is, I'm pretty sure it means someone's just running a script that takes up too much of the temporary resources is all. Thought I'd let you know.

[UnlimitedMB]

You can change nameservers in the control panel.

Be aware that (almost) all hosts have limits against excessive resources.
If your going to overload a shared hosts server with chat scripts and auto refresh, dont expect them to let it go on forever with no consequences, either they wont care and you will be left on a very slow unstable server, or you will get suspended.

Also these restrictions here are not recent, it has always been this way.
I posted the "banned scripts" thread to make it more clear then the wording used in the ToS (excessive resources etc).

[arenlor]

I didn't think it took that much resources (the thing I coded auto-refreshed every 20-60 seconds in 5 second intervals depending on the user settings, they would likely refresh quicker on their own, and just pulled the last 50 lines from a DB which were limited to 80 characters each. So 400 characters.

[UnlimitedMB]

The http protocol is not suitable for chat, it was designed for a page/file to be downloaded, and then the connection is closed, chat should be done on IRC or similar systems which are designed for continuous transmissions over a single socket.

If your opening and closing connections (sockets) repeatedly it puts too much load on the server. Sure you can get away with it if you only have a few hits.

Do you see any forums with 1000+ users online and a web chat? of course not.

Imagine this:
Person loads your forum takes a minute to read a page, then goes to the next page.
Some pages maybe he takes 5 mins to read.
Total requests maybe 20 per hour if user spends the whole hour on your site.

Now if you have a chat refreshing every 5 seconds thats 720 requests in 1 hour, and thats without the visitor even doing anything, just from having the page open.
Further to that your making database connections with constant read/write makes it even worse.

Now if you have 10 users online, its worse, and quickly gets out of control.
This is why you dont see big sites with web chat, they use some flash or java to bring the chat to irc.

BTW. your account has never shown up in any of our resource scans, so you have nothing to worry about.

[arenlor]

yeah that's why when I made the chat I made it was set to minimum 20 seconds between refresh, and I never really thought my site would get a single visitor lol.

[UnlimitedMB]

Originally Posted by arenlor

EDIT: A sort of PS, I keep getting LONG delays on this forum (the rest of the site loads beautifully as usual) and I got an error pop up the one time about, and I know I'm messing up the wording, Allocated Memory Exceeded tried to allocate ##### memory blah blah blah, I'm sure you know what it is, I'm pretty sure it means someone's just running a script that takes up too much of the temporary resources is all. Thought I'd let you know.

I replied before you added this.

This error means something is wrong with your script.
Long delay sounds like its getting stuck in an infinite loop and eventually crashes with memory error.
Very ususual for a forum to do this unless you installed bad mods.

Its definately nothing to do with someone else running scripts, its specific to your script.

[destrugter]

So does that mean i can get an irc java chat room and put it on my site? or does it have to be sperately hosted?

[Tyler]

We do not host IRC servers, they are a special server, different then ours. If you have one you can link to it from your site.

[UnlimitedMB]

You can use a java applet irc on your site to connect to any irc server, such as efnet or dalnet which give you a channel for free.

Theres also a flash chat, works through flash and all you need to do is put some html code on your site, i seen it on a few websites but i do not remember the url of the site that offers them.

[arenlor]

Eric, I had been getting that error on this forum, that's why I posted it there.