Hi,

The donation based web hosting at 1btchost.com will no longer be accepting new customers and existing accounts will be not renewed.
This is due to repeated targeted hacking of my site and the sites of my customers.

I ran this service on a not-for-profit basis and I cannot supply the resources needed to guarantee security against a determined attacker.

Since I started this service a year ago, a lot of other providers have joined the bitcoin community, so the loss of my service is no real biggie.

It was good while it lasted.

A warning to other providers perhaps.

dM

I provide hosting for bitcoins. It has previously been advertised on this forum, so I am announcing this clarification here.

One of my customers has hosted content that is borderline breaking the TOS of my providers, and may be illegal. They know what they are doing because they have a prominent message on the landing page advising visitors to use TOR.
It is currently being assessed by my providers. If it turns out that is is ok by them, then fine. I do not apply my values to the content I host.

I will just advise - as it says on the website, please do not host anything that my be considered illegal in the UK.

If my account gets terminated, then all of the hosting at 1btchost also gets terminated.
Of course - all customer data is kept safe by me, and most of my customers use untraceable e-mails anyway, but the bottom line is that 1btchost is to support the bitcoin community, not for hosting dodgy illegal stuff, and I will take down any content that may risk my account - to protect my other clients.

If you want to host stuff that would get taken off the internet, then that is what freenet is for. Look it up.

TOR and my hosting is not a substitute for freenet, and to use it as such is to put me in the firing line and hide behind TOR yourself. I do not feel great about being used in this way.

Hope this clarifies,

dM

Hi,

Something a little disturbing.

I recently restored a wallet backup.

I have paid 99 BTC to this address on (2011-03-20 04:47:46), but the wallet is not showing the payment as received. It is showing a 1 BTC payment that was made another time (2011-03-19 23:46:38).


The wallet is showing a balance of 1 when it should be 100.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

dM


<edit> I should clarify that the transaction is not showing at all, this does not seem to be an issue like long latency confirmation, I have not seen anything like this before. <edit>
Currently running bitcoin 3.20.2

Hi,
Using bitcoin-0.3.20

I have sent a payment of 10 BTC that has been unconfirmed for nearly 12 hours now.
I had no unconfirmed transactions in my wallet when it was sent.
Is this common or could it point to a problem?
Thought I'd better report it anyway.
dM

<edit>
Looked for it on blockexplorer - Not there.

http://blockexplorer.com/address/14XFTVDQrBhw79jYScyiZBx6bp17XHQq6f is showing a confirmed 1BTC transaction that I sent to the same address 20 minutes earlier

<edit>

Hi,

The price has changed due to volatility of bitcoins.
I now offer a Donation based BTC / month package, Ideal for small sites, blogs, forums.

Details are here:

http://1btchost.com/

I want to keep this simple and reliable, however if it becomes popular then I may set up automated registration and so-on.

dM


Previously I offered bespoke web hosting for bitcoins in this thread http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3821.0 I suggest going for the http://1btchost.com/ package now as it is a simpler setup, and it can be customised if desired.

Hi.
I am in the UK.
I can supply webhosting with Cpanel and softaculous (including SMF, PHPBB, Wordpress, Drupal, Etc...), to your spec with regards to bandwidth and disk space, for BitCoins. Hosted in a UK datacentre that I rent for other hosting purposes.

PM me with a proposition and we can begin further discussion. Although the datacentre is in the UK, obviously the offer is open to people everywhere.

I am not fixing prices in advance because I want to provide a custom service spec'd to the buyers needs and what they want to pay.

I supply this as-is. I want to add value to the BitCoins economy and I have spare capacity on my servers.

This would be great for small websites or forums or blogs. Not high bandwidth/heavy processing or mission critical deployments until I have built up some trust in the community. My providers also have a policy against IRC, but apart from that any normal website deployment would be acceptable.

I would offer domains, but a best practice is to always have your domains separate from your hosting, so you should register a domain yourself with someone like godaddy.com or whatever to be able to use this service. (I am not recommending godaddy.com - just an example)

I will set up the site to use your domain and give you your own Cpanel login.
I will tell you the nameservers to use for your domain.
You pay monthly either in advance or after a month of service depending on what we agree.
You will need to do everything else to design your site - I assume clients will know how to use Cpanel.
I will provide e-mail or pm support for hosting issues but unless this really takes off I cannot provide detailed tutoring on how to set up sites.
As always - the community will judge this service on it's merits.
dM

I am now also offering a 1btc/month hosting package - details in this thread. which is probably a good introduction.