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Re: Someone plz help me add this
« Reply #15 on: October 28, 2007, 06:22:17 am »
In order to have the Simple Machines version of the SMF software (the kind that allows you to install mods, customize more than just the stylesheet, etc), you will need to download it, purchase a domain then upload it to your domain.

We did that  and we were uploading what we wanted everything, we were going by the TOS the lot  not one thing out of place, the site was just getting Awesome, i will never ever go through byethost.com again, then after all them weeks we lost the lot still till this day not only me but all the members get redirected to a blog site, all that hard work gone, i hope you guys never do that to us i am planning on upgrading  the lot!

What do we get if we upgrade to you guys, are we allowed to upload the stuff we want including smilies and such on?

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Re: Someone plz help me add this
« Reply #16 on: October 28, 2007, 06:27:49 am »
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Do you know of any other host

There are quite a few free hosting services out there.  Bravenet is one, but if you Google "free hosting services" you should be able to find one that meets your needs.



Awesome i really appreciate these quick responses, Thankyou!

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Re: Someone plz help me add this
« Reply #17 on: October 28, 2007, 10:50:45 am »
If you read through the support forum you will find that there are tutorials for exchanging smilies and even codes for making drop down add on smilies.  I was using another free forum service and switched to this one as it is much more stable.

Why don't you look around and see if we are what you are looking for.


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Re: Someone plz help me add this
« Reply #18 on: October 28, 2007, 11:19:34 am »

What do we get if we upgrade to you guys, are we allowed to upload the stuff we want including smilies and such on?


You will find that most free forum hosting services do not allow you do add mods, upload smileys;  upload much of anything.   
"FREE"  generally does mean you do not get all features after all.      You'll find that the owner of SMF for FREE has added a  lot of nice features to it,  gives us the ability to make our forums unique by the ability to edit the Headers/Footers.     Look thru the Codes section:   You will see a lot of codes, many by members,  many found around the net,  that help to add things to the forums,  change things as well.    Look thru the Stylesheet Section:    There are many many stylesheets listed there - made by members of Smf For Free.     

I guess what I am saying is look thru the sections of the forum that give you some good info on how to change your forum, make it unique.     You'll find there is a lot you can do with this service.     No, it is not the same as hosting one yourself.  NO you will not have access to folders,  uploading Mods, uploading smileys.     But this is a free hosting service and those things should not be "expected"   Overall Ild say this ranks among the best and Im not saying that as a Moderator.   
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Re: Someone plz help me add this
« Reply #19 on: October 28, 2007, 12:12:14 pm »
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What do we get if we upgrade to you guys, are we allowed to upload the stuff we want including smilies and such on?



Just to clarify for you, you cannot "upgrade to us". When you see people here talking about upgrading, that simply means the version of the software we are using has been upgraded to the latest release by SMF and includes updates that he has installed. He still is the only one that has complete control of installing anything on our forums such as mods, smileys, etc. Some of our members have come up with work-arounds (in the codes section) that allow you to do more with your forum than normal, but that is the only way you can make changes to it. He used to allow us to upload our own smileys but because people were starting to add ALOT of them to their forums, and the ones they would add were large in size, it put a strain on his servers and were causing problems. Right now the only thing you can do is "swap out" the ones you currently have. This allows your smileys that your using to be stored somewhere else besides his servers and puts the strain on the hosting sites servers that you are using (like PhotoBucket). He has ALOT of new things that he will be adding soon to our site like a new Portal Page so he is trying to keep a handle on whats installed so he doesnt bog his servers down because that means problems like down time which none of us want.