I'm Bored

[BMR777]

No, I'd have to figure out how to write a safe file upload script, lately I have just been manually uploading images if a forum admin requests a custom logo. I used a file upload script a while back that someone else wrote but that had a hole in it somewhere that allowed an attacker to upload a malicious file to a directory on my server. Since then I am very suspicious of using a file upload script; I'd have to write one with some good safeguards in place.

BMR777

[keios]

Yea you never know about those. I personally think the one i mentioned earlier would do fine, Thats what almost all big forum hosts like invisionfree ect use. All you have to do is paste the link and it appears lol.

Also i am sending you a pm i wanna ask you something :P

[kab012345]

You registered on the official AEF Support Board?

Safe File Upload is pretty simple lol I think. Just use if, else, and ifelse statements. Ex. below is just to illustrate and probably won't work ;)

PHP Code:

 if ($ext !== "bmp" && !== "jpeg") {
echo "Please contact the Host Administration Services for assistance."; 
} else {
echo "Uploaded sucessfully.."; 


etc. ;)

I have a few host questions for you BMR: (in PHP format lol)

PHP Code:

<?php
$poster = "kab012345";
function hostquestions() {
echo "1. So, how many total domains do you have? <BR />
2. What do you use to host, VPS, Dedicated, other? <BR />
3. How much space, bandwidth, etc do you have?<BR />
4. Do you know how you can make money from people posting on a central forum or have links to guides, etc?<BR /> 
(Thinking of other possible ways besides ads. (Ex. trap17.com))"; 
echo "---------- <BR />";
echo "|Posted by" <i>. $poster .</i>;
}
?>

<?php
hostquestions();
?>

Regular:

1. So, how many total domains do you have?
2. What do you use to host, VPS, Dedicated, other?
3. How much space, bandwidth, etc do you have?
4. Do you know how you can make money from people posting on a central forum or have links to guides, etc? (Thinking of other possible ways besides ads. (Ex. trap17.com))
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|Posted by kab012345

[BMR777]

1. For forum hosting I have 5 domain names. 3 are actively hosting forums, one is for research for this script only (becomeaforumhost.com - expires in a few months, part of an old project) and one is there just in case I ever need to expand.

2 - 3. The bulk of my site is hosted on a reseller hosting account currently. I have 20GB disk space with 200GB monthly transfer on that reseller account. My site's main website and support forums are hosted on a seperate server with a much smaller shared hosting account. The older second server contains some of the oldest forums we host, not too many people still active on the old server but there are a few. I keep two servers so that if the main server hosting the forums goes down, support will still be up.

4. I don't know how much you could make from a post-to-host. What I do for my site is I try and bump people up from free forums to CPanel hosting for a few dollars a month. That's why the reseller comes in handy! :)

Also, as far as file uploads go, the one I tried actually checked the file type as you suggested and it still got hacked, so I have to find a bulletproof way of allowing uploads before I allow them on my servers again.

BMR777

[kab012345]

Thanks.
If I start a free forum host, I guess I'll get a VPS or a good hosting account (Reseller is wise though) :P. May use ads or post-2-host, with remove button.

[BMR777]

VPS servers can get expensive quick. It all depends on how much space you need, how much traffic you get and the amount of server resources you will need. I have been able to keep things under control so I can run things on shared servers (shared / reseller) no issues. Eventually I will need a VPS but I haven't needed one in two years yet so I think I am doing fine. The amount of traffic will dictate how big of a server you need. If you go too small you can easily crash a shared hosting server, but if you go too big you're burning money and space.

BMR777

[kab012345]

I'm so eager to get started lol. Have to finish this Teenage Millionaire Book too. :)
Just need to actually program the script, and work on other projects people have me doing for them. :P