Daniel0

If they said 65k then just say that you accept their offer. Saves you from making an offer while still getting the 65k.

It depends on a number of different factors. Living costs, how much money you want when your expenses are paid, how much your time is worth, the general level in that particular area, your competency, etc. If you cost the company more money than what they profit by having you (e.g. if they can get a similarly leveled programmer at a lower wage) then you're a liability and thus disposable. Therefore, you do not want to get greedy and request whatever wage someone else might be able to get. That someone else might be better than you are or just very lucky...

I thought that was standard practice in the U.S. ???

Yes, the lawsuit thing wasn't a joke at all. It has happened several times.

[...] as Daniel0 suggested [...] Wasn't me

While I do understand you, that statement is not entirely true. The most frequent use for PHP is creating dynamic HTML, but you can output any type of content and it doesn't necessarily have to be a browser.

In all fairness, I've only heard bad things about GoDaddy hosting as well. However, cobrascript's website instantly makes me think think they're amateurs that do not know what they're doing. It looks really unprofessional and outdated. Their prices, which I assume are in USD, are really low as well, which further indicates that they're amateurs. The entire thing screams "hurry away, you'll probably be scammed" and personally I think it's surprising you ever chose to do business with them. Oh yeah, and don't use all caps in the topic title...

http://aremysitesup.com

Okay so I thought I'd elaborate on why hosting a large website isn't cheap. Being large means that many requests will be made to the server. This means that the server load will be higher and we will require more resources. In order to get more resources we need more expensive equipment. The datacenter also has various forms of protective measures such as cooling. Both running the server and cooling systems use electricity and that costs money as well. Hardware doesn't last forever either, so eventually it'll have to be replaced. The datacenter also has sophisticated security measures such as biometric security, surveillance, keycards, etc. The datacenter also has redundancy to prevent or limit downtime and it has 24/7 human staff that need to get paid as well. Then there is the cost of purchasing gigabit uplinks, which isn't that cheap either. Everything adds up, and even though we are owned by a hosting company we do not actually get free hosting; the resources allocated to us are resources that cannot be sold to actual clients and we still consume stuff like electricity. You are probably being fooled by those infinity hosts that exist. We couldn't possibly use such a host as there would be other restrictions beside bandwidth and harddisks. One thing would be CPU usage, and if you look at this topic then you'll see that cheaper hosts put restrictions on how large the database can be. In the case of the host in the aforementioned topic, our database would be many times too large to be hosted there, for example. The infinity hosts can give you "unlimited" disk space and bandwidth because any site that would ever consume a lot of either would incidentally consume additional resources that are limited. But again, if you are willing to pay for our hosting or provide the same level of hosting we currently have for only $30/month then we would be very interested in hearing from you.

Though I won't disclose any details, I can assure you that the cost of hosting this website is quite a lot higher than $30/month. If you wish to sponsor our hosting then I suggest that you contact Eric Rosebrock from The Web Freaks, Inc.

If other hostnames or IP addresses than what you set as ServerName point to that Apache installation then they'll get served the default (i.e. the first) vhost. If you didn't explicitly define any vhosts then it'll just be whatever httpd.conf says.

obey the government, no questions asked, eh? Kind of funny, coming from an american. Isn't that exactly what you said earlier? That you need to go by the "house rules"...

Yes, you do need to do that (hence the capitalized "NEED" in fenway's post). You are telling MySQL this: "In the table something, change the column x to be this: ...". The last part of it is the same syntax as when you are creating a table.

Stuff like its type, default value, etc.

You can use nl2br to make regular line breaks into HTML line breaks.

It's not strange. Imagine that you have a backup dump you would like to restore. In that case you would like to retain the same primary keys (otherwise you would risk breaking relations) and you would then need to supply the ID yourself.

<Files> will affect all files that match the given pattern. You're probably looking for something like this instead: <Location /index.html> AddType application/x-httpd-php .html </Location>

That should be fine. I believe you can leave it blank as well, but I'm not entirely sure. If you wish to access it using the hostname box1 then you should enter that. If you'd rather use an IP address then you can enter the IP address for the machine instead. For a basic setup you shouldn't have to modify anything else, though if you wish to host multiple websites then you'll need to setup some vhosts.

Add this: <script type="text/javascript"> window.onload = function() { document.getElementById('light').style.display='block'; document.getElementById('fade').style.display='block'; }; </script>

Plain text is unformatted. How would you accomplish this?

Last I checked, Canonical provides professional paid support for Ubuntu as well.

No, take a look at ALTER TABLE.

You can't do that. Just don't give it a value for your ID field.

Buy books that teach theory, don't buy a book that tell you how to write something specific. Also, don't buy any book whose title sounds like "Learn X in Y hours/days/nanoseconds" - they suck.

nerya, check the function I provided just above. It works as long as you have the curl extension enabled and as long as you're running PHP 5.2 or higher.