Stinger Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 What the heck, I just logged on and all my files are gone. Do they regulary delete them? Or are they having troubles? I am using a free account btw. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Ranger Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 Boomspeed.com does not like Remote Linking. I had an account there(free), and it was disabled for "Terms Of Service Violations". Apparently, you can use it to host pics for E-Bay and such. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zantar45 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 Boomspeed also says if you do not visit your site in 45 days, they erase your account. I myself was having problems with it deleting my pics, but thats fixed. I dont know if you know or not, but there cannot be any spaces between the names of the pics when you upload them or else they erase. Just like geocities. I wish geocities pics would show up on forums boards. eh, free is free. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firefly2442 Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 Yeah, all that bandwidth must be extremely costly. Try hosting it yourself if you have a fast enough connection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinger Posted April 6, 2003 Author Share Posted April 6, 2003 I'd love to host it if I knew how. Okay well maybe Ill look into a pay thing then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Maximum Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 (edited) hmmm.. I host all my pictures on BS, and if you can see my sig right now, it means they haven't deleted it. I even host other peoples stuff on there as well. EDIT: ok, I can't see it...that didn't turn out well... Edited April 6, 2003 by Major Maximum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinger Posted April 6, 2003 Author Share Posted April 6, 2003 I also cant add anything... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightCrawler Posted April 6, 2003 Share Posted April 6, 2003 I pay Ranchoweb something $10 a year and that way I can do as I please. And you'll notice that mine are usually there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinger Posted April 6, 2003 Author Share Posted April 6, 2003 (edited) linkage? nm, I right clicked for properties etc. Edited April 6, 2003 by Stinger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinger Posted April 9, 2003 Author Share Posted April 9, 2003 Okay got this just today. My own fault. Major, you may wanna watch your 6 though. Dear stingerman, Your BoomSpeed.Com account has been disabled for TOS Violations and is scheduled to be deleted within 30 days. Here is why, and here is a very fair and simple way that you can save your account and prevent it from being deleted. Over the past year, BoomSpeed.Com has grown incredibly large and fast with the help of our members, spreading the word about what an excellent, fast and easy to use service we have. Thousands of people love using BoomSpeed. We have offered free accounts, and will continue to offer free accounts as promised. However, we have had a large amount of free users who have been using their accounts in violation of our Terms Of Service ("TOS"). Users who are using free accounts in violation of our TOS harm the speed and quality of the service for everyone, so we must enforce our rules. Everyone who has created a free account here at BoomSpeed agreed to our rules or Terms Of Service (TOS) when starting their account.     We understand that a lot of our users might not be aware of the Terms of Service restrictions on free 1Meg accounts. The URL for reading the current (and sometimes updated) TOS is http://www.boomspeed.com/terms.htm Because of the amount of bandwidth (our speed) being used up with free accounts being used in violation of the TOS, we must enforce our TOS by disabling and deleting free accounts not following the BoomSpeed rules and Terms Of Service.  We are not trying to be mean or cause any problems for any users, but we must crack down on the abuse to keep the service working for everyone.  You are receiving this email because your account has come up in our audits as being used in violation of the TOS (specifically, linking to files in your account from non-ebay, non-auction related & non-BoomSpeed hosted personal websites.) Because of this, your account has been disabled and is scheduled to be deleted at the end of this month. Do not let this happen! We are offering a great alternative to having your account deleted! If you upgrade to our lowest priced membership account immediately you would normally be charged $6 for this month then only $6/month, billed quarterly. We always pro-rate charges based on when your subscription is submitted. First half of month is charged $6, second half is charged $3 for that month, plus $6 per month pro-rated to the end of the current quarter. You can NOT beat that price, anywhere! Because this is the beginning of the 3rd Quarter of 2003, we are offering to discount $3 off of this month's charge if you submit the upgrade for your account before April 15th.     We look forward to having you as a member. Subscribers pay $6/month (billed in $18 quarterly payments every 3 months) via a Credit Card charge made on or around the 1st of the months of January, April, July & October. With this upgrade, your account will be reactivated and you will have full access to 100 TIMES the disk space of our free accounts. A FULL 100 Megabytes of disk space for you to use for anything from backing up your hard drive, to storing family photos & other images for auctions, chatboards, whatever you like and have them instantly available on the Internet for others to see. Just by upgrading, you can keep using your BoomSpeed.Com account exactly like you are using it right now! To quickly upgrade your account, please visit: https://secure.boomspeed.com/secure/boomspe...d/april2003.htm We accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express. This upgrade offer is only available by using a credit card directly with quarterly recurring billing. Once again, the link to upgrade now and save your account via credit card is : https://secure.boomspeed.com/secure/boomspe...d/april2003.htm We here at BoomSpeed want you to stay with us. Your paid account will help us grow your hosting service with even more new features.  Please consider keeping your account with us here at BoomSpeed.  We welcome you to sign up for our membership service with this extremely low offer, and we look forward to hearing from you soon. Respectfully, William Devine, II BoomSpeed Support support@boomspeed.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zebb Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 I pay a small amount every year and it seems to work most of the time, i have tried a few free ones but i always get some sort of problem with them ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightCrawler Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 That Stinger, is why I pay a pittance to Ranchoweb also and so far they haven't let me down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CtheHammer Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 If you make an American flag your sig and avatar you can remote link to that due to an exception in the remote linking rules. From the Terms of Service: 11/11/01 Update regarding American Patriotism : Boomspeed is run in America, by proud Americans, and displays of the American Flag and American Patriotism will be protected by Boomspeed. Users who are using Boomspeed to display the American Flag and other patriotic images outside of the previous terms of usage are now protected by this update. So FLY THE AMERICAN FLAG ANYWHERE you want to on the Internet, as this is now an exception to the previous TOS as noted above. (NOTE) This only means that remote linking to your FLAG is protected, NOT that doing so excludes you from the other Terms of remote linking. Meaning, just because you link to a flag on your page, does not mean that you can link to another image remotely on your page, as that is a TOS violation. C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stinger Posted April 10, 2003 Author Share Posted April 10, 2003 That Stinger, is why I pay a pittance to Ranchoweb also and so far they haven't let me down I'm poor, so I may try to get my mom to pay for a service for me maybe fixing her computer...*goes to create problems on moms puter* lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightCrawler Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 It's like $10 a year, so even the poor like ourselves can afford it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigT4187 Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 If you are looking for free picture hosting I use villagephotos.com. They have free accounts and pay accounts. The free accounts are limited to 25 images (I think) and a certain bandwith per day. Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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