I'm going to post this so everyone understands WHY we made the recent changes to PHP. Let me start by saying this is not something we wanted to do, anyone who knows PHP and servers can appreciate how much coding had to go into making this work and it's all 99% automated besides approving the accounts. We have tons of other things we could better spend our time on.
x10 is fairly popular and we get between 400-600 sign-ups EVERY day. That is a lot of accounts! For a regular paid host they could only hope to get that many accounts in a whole year! So please think about that when you compare x10 to paid hosting and other hosts. We've spent 3 years developing and learning here on x10, I can guarantee you that if you threw 400 accounts each day to any other host that gives you as many features as we do they'd be down and gone within a week. I'd say our servers and everything handle this quite well and we've had minimum downtime considering the circumstances.
With those hundreds of accounts each day there are a good amount of spammers, phishing accounts, mail bomb scripts, etc... These types of users ruin it for everyone else because they can cause tons of issues with a server very quickly. So to limit this and be fair to the people who genuinely want to create a website we decided to implement the current PHP system. It may take you a little longer up front to get everything working the way you want but it will be worth it in the long run when you have a working web site that doesn't go down or have issues caused by these other abusers.
Most of the abusers want an account as fast as possible and then upload a file or two and on they go with their abuse. By putting this system in place we are adding extra steps to screen these people out. The genuine people who want a website will go through with out a problem where as these abusive people will most likely find it too much work and not even try.
So please understand, this makes more work for us too and we're only doing it to better the hosting services here. If there was some way to automatically tell what each and every person's intentions were we'd be all set but we don't have that ability. We have to do what we think is best for the whole community even if it means asking you to spend a few extra minutes reading and applying for an upgraded version of PHP
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If anyone has any questions feel free to ask.
-Corey
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