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Does anyone know if I will lose access to the forum if I upgrade to a premium reseller account?

What specific docs are you inquiring about? Software? or tutorials?

Yes, this is true. You can also use a site builder independently of the hosting environment. I have recommended [REDACTED | COMPETING SERVICE] in the past for this function. They do have a free plan that could be beneficial. If you should chose to upgrade though all of your account settings do transfer and iFastnet provides SSL by default on all paid plan's using Let;s Encrypt Auto SSL. So, you won't even need to buy or configure any SSL Certificates manually after that

The issue is FTP uses insecure connection type on the standard port unless you use SFTP which uses a different port all together. So, if you do require a secure connection use a SFTP client instead of the unsecured protocol

I can help with the email service. We are gifting two stand alone email boxes that just require you to update mail records in MOFH via vpanel to make it work. Pm for more information

I fell behind on this as I have been super busy with upgrading our mail server and increasing its security protocols due to recent influx of DDOS attacks. But, this is still on the project list. I do have the domain reserved and I am researching the best way to build this out and what tools are going to be neccessary in order for it work and be useful. Stay tuned for further updates

@Kirill After running a domain health check I have discovered there id an issue with the server not responding. Please contact the iFastnet Support Team at https://ifastnet.com/support and open a ticket so they can address the server failure

@starline Okay in the simplest of terms NS records are like phone numbers for the interweb. When you type in a domain name the g-tld (.com) ns looks to see if they have information stored on your domains location. it then forwards your browser to the non-auth NS (Domain Registrar glue records) which has information for your parent name servers. Your parent NS (MOFH NS) has the information for your local NS (server NS that your site actually resides on. The local NS then provides the ip address and SNI information to display the requested resource. So as you can see if you don't set up your glue records at the registrar then your custom ns (ns1.yourdomain.com) will not work. To set these records sign into your registrar, click on the NS area and you should see a register NS button at the top. It will ask for the FQDN of your NS and the ip address for the NS. The IPs should NOT be on the same subnet as that would pout your site at risk for a singe point of failure should one of the NS stop working. MOFH provides the ip addresses for the NS setup. Contact support if you need these numbers. NOTE: The register NS instructions refer to freenom service. If you use a different registrar contact their support for more detailed instructions on how to complete this task.

I have a basic html sigin page that is hosted on your domain and you can direct your customers to sign into this page. It passes credentials through the existing Vista Panel Mod Login box and logs customers into thier account. If you want to redirect to your login page if login fails then use the "failurl" value to redirect back to the login page. See attached screen shot of my login page and message me if you would like the code to create your own

in regards to the welcome email, to create a www link @Dimitris is correct. It won't work because the www will be out of place making it a broken link. These days most people don't even use www anymore. They just use the main domain address because it reduces typing and gets them to the same site. WWW is still available as legacy, it is just not used like it was in the early days of the interwebs

@Dimitris Actually you can add TXT records using the SPF Records option in Vista Panel. That is how I add all my txt records for all kinds of things other than mail txt records. as long as it is a txt record you can use this option. @Lebyy MOFH doesn't support domain email due to spam but they allow you to host your email else where and add mx records to make it work. The activation email comes from MOFH mail account and there is no way to change that. Best option is to inform your customers on the signup page to whitelist the from email address so it doesn't go to spam. I would also inform them to check their spam folder for the activation email as well. Hope this helps. You can use mandrill for all your custom emails and newsletters. That is the system that MOFH supports in your Reseller Panel

So the way the Custom NS's work is MOFH sets them up for oyu in advance but you have to go and register the glue records at your registrar. You will need the NS IP addresses given to you in your welcome email. If you no longer have that email you will need to open a support ticket at ifastnet.com/support and they will give them to you. Alternatively you can you your primary cpanel account to open a support ticket as well and then escalate it in your Reseller Panel. If you chose this option make sure you mention that your a reseller and include your domain name. Support is really good about helping out with these inquiries

Actually, securesignup.net links no longer work. MOFH Support Team advised me to changed all my register callback urls from securesignup.net to ifastnet.com. This is located in the signup.php file in htdocs. Hope this helps you all so the correct link would be //ifastnet.com/register2.php no http or https needed. the system auto detects and makes the connection secure as ifastnet forces their registration script to render in SSL

I know there are alot of servers. But, information is important to resellers when it comes to diagnosing issues with our clients. I also wrote a custom script to auto run with cron checking the availability of the sqlite DB Server since TCP packets are blocked on the db server. And it works like a charm

iFastnet process all the major credit card networks including paypal. I have been using MOFH along time and if you need any guidance, feel free to reach out. As far as apps go, do oyu mean an app for your hosting site? or do you mean website templates? Welcome to the network!! Let me know if I can help in any way

What I am talking about making is a server status page for all servers in the free hosting cluster. A Place to give resellers a to go to for up to date information. I have already secured the domain name for this project and it is being hosted off the MOFH Network to make accessibility available even when the MOFH network is offline. I would love participation, would you like to join the group of administrators for this portal and help us keep the information relevant and updated? We are an inclusive community project.

Did you place an order?

I will message tomorrow as I am about to call it a night. But, yes I would enjoy explaining this to you further. In absence of iFastnet tools or information this is kind of the only thing we have at our disposal and I think your right about the false tickets. That is why someone will have to monitor and moderate it. I think creating some monitoring pages would be helpful as well. One monitoring page for all the servers and then a monitoring page for specific services like email, sqli and ftp being the most important ones. I believe with all three tools we may begin to have a good flow of information. Another tactic would also be to have a ticketing system to report outages and once we confirm it with iFastnet then we could escalate the ticket which would trigger the automation for the creation of the incidence. But, it would take several of us working together managing this new system. But, at least other resellers would have up to date information and not something from back in 2015. lol. Well, Good night. Stay safe and healthy and we'll talk tomorrow

Which site are you going to? I just tested the link to the email, and it seems to be functioning fine. I placed a sandbox order, and from start to finish was the process I expected. But, if your having issues with it, then I apologize. If you are interested in the email, send me a DM with your domain name and contact details, and I'll create the account in the back end, so you don't have any problems. Just let me know how you would like to proceed. I think I am also going to work on a PHP sign up form for this; that way, resellers can use that form.

You know we could set up a MOFH Community driven one. I could host it on one of my 23 domains. lol. It would have a link directly on it to report issues and incidents and we could have it automated by sending an email to a specific address that would get relayed and that would trigger an incident opening and an alert would go out to others that are subscribed to get the updates. Just a thought on how we could ultimately help one another be successful. Let me know what you think.

I had this issue as well. Once a package is assigned to the user, the system doesn't like to update it. So, the workaround I used is on the user page I defined the custom quotas using the boxes for them on that page. It will change the quotas and reflect that in the user account. Hope this helps Hope this helps.

You unfortunately can't use LE on free hosting. It's due to a services limitation issue and the method by which LE has to verify the domain's SSL status. But, what you can do is try to get a free SSL cert or you can get one from us. We partner with Zero SSL and they renew every 90 days. It does require a bit of tinkering and most of our customers elect for the year anyways. But both options are available. Zero SSL let's you get 3 free 90 day SSL's before you exhaust their Free offering though. Hope this is helpful to you and let us know if we can help you further.

iFastnet does have a server status page. it's just located behind their membership panel. So, unless you have a paid hosting subscription you cant access it. But if you guys would like I can make an external page for just monitoring their server status. They usually also update their twitter page- or used to. Twitter would be a great way of getting those updates. And I agree, they should have one set up for the MOFH Resellers to track and stay informed about performance related issues since they affect all of your clients.

There is an easier way to do this. You could manually change all your code into the language of choice. But, the easier way is to use the Google Translator plugin and select all languages and let it translate based upon the languge set in each visitor's computer. go here: https://www.dummies.com/education/internet-basics/how-to-install-google-translates-website-translator-plugin/ for additional information Hope this helps. Stay safe and healthy

So, I believe access to the site builder is session based. Which means as long as you access it by logging in to your CP and clicking the site builder icon then you have access. Site Pad also works that way for my clients. There is a way you can use the features your talking about but you would have to subscribe to the builder individually in order to enable that functionality. Otherwise it uses session hashes to authticate. Hopes this helps. Also, if you run into any more issues then feel free to message me. I am a systems admin and I do this for a living and I could help you.