[LET Exclusive] Bornin.Asia - LIVE (in Beta)!

zhuanyi

It all started with @tridinebandim 's idea (http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/119509#Comment_119509) after I registered bornin.asia and with some help from really helpful LET members (http://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/4747/good-subdomain-script), particularly @Taz_NinjaHawk and @Randy, as well as a great ChicagoVPS offer from @jshinkle and @CVPS_Chris (http://www.lowendbox.com/blog/chicagovps-7month-2gb-openvz-vps-in-buffalo-ny-and-chicago-il-usa/), I finally managed to put everything together and present to you: Bornin.Asia subdomain and really low-end free shared hosting (no VPS, sorry).

It is not fully completed yet but at the moment, I think I can start release some accounts to the reputable and active LET members as my appreciation for all the help I have received.

So here is how it works:

1. Sign up here: https://billing.bornin.asia/order/index.php?id=1 (yes I did get a cheap NameCheap SSL Cert), one account per LET user please.

2. PM me the account name you used for registration, and if you are one of the active members, I will approve your account. Please note that as this is a free service, and I need to eat/sleep/do my day job/have fun during weekend, it might take up to 24 hours for your account to be approved, I appreciate your patience on this matter.

3. Once you get the approval email, you can log in to CPanel through http://yoursubdomain.bornin.asia:2082 or https://yoursubdomain.bornin.asia:2083, note that you have access to the advanced DNS editor which enable you to change the A record of the subdomain, so if 50MB of space is too small for you, please feel free to point the IP to your own server.

4. Although it is not a must-have, I would appreciate if you could kindly register an account in the forum https://billing.bornin.asia/forums and ask for questions/seeking help as well as post all your comments and suggestions.

And here are a few things to note:

1. This is a free hosting service that is currently in beta stage, and therefore it could be down or there could be temporary issues here and there as I am fixing things. Please bear with me as this is the first time I am trying to offer something. Also, please keep your own backups.
   Also note that the majority of the support will be done via the forum mentioned above, and I do hope members who are benefiting from this service could offer some help to the other new members as well, you can send emails to admin AT bornin.asia if it is related to your personal information/password reset, etc, but please do not email me if you need to know how to upload your website and/or how to create subdomains, etc.

2. Go easy with the noobs (aka: me), I know there are many experts here who could probably get root access from CPanel in 2 seconds, I appreciate your advice on improving the security of the hosting, but please do not use this to test your hacking skills. I have spent a good deal of time and money as well on this absolutely free service. And I will put up a shame list with your LET user name if you are found to repeatedly abusing the resources.

3. As the VPS that is used for this project is with ChicagoVPS, their AUP and TOS applies to BornIn.Asia as well, their TOS can be found on this page: https://billing.chicagovps.net/terms_of_service.php and AUP here: http://chicagovps.net/downloads/AcceptableUsePolicy_ChicagoVPS.pdf.

Please post your comments/suggestions/issues here and hope you will enjoy this LET-exclusive free service

P.S. Special thanks gives to @Legendlink for being my first beta tester.

ErawanArifNugroho

Any example of what we will get?
Maybe live demo?

zhuanyi

@ErawanArifNugroho said: Any example of what we will get?

Here is what you will be getting:

50 MB of hard drive space
500 MB of monthly bandwidth
5 FTP accounts
2 Email accounts
5 MySQL databases
5 subdomains
maximum 100 emails per hour

@ErawanArifNugroho said: Maybe live demo?

It uses CPanel, so you can find plenty of CPanel live demo online.

ErawanArifNugroho

FREE shared hosting and subdomain service for LET members

Hehe.. Sorry for the miunderstanding
I just re read the isgnature, it's free shared hosting
Just wondering how we use the subdomain?
Can we just make www.borninasia.com/~Erawan or erawan.bornin.asia?

zhuanyi

@ErawanArifNugroho said: Hehe.. Sorry for the miunderstanding

Post updated, sorry, most of the time we are talking about VPS here but hosting a VPS in an OpenVZ VPS is probably not a good idea.

@ErawanArifNugroho said: Can we just make www.borninasia.com/~Erawan or erawan.bornin.asia?

erawan.bornin.asia, although personally I would think it would be more fun to have a more creative domain name. Like theSmartestErawan.bornin.asia

Taz

Are we able to manage our own dns?

ErawanArifNugroho

lol.. you're teasing on me

zhuanyi

@Taz_NinjaHawk said: Are we able to manage our own dns?

You have access to the advanced DNS editor which means you can change the A record, CNAME record and a whole bunch of others. But if you would like to change NS I will have to make the change on WHM end, which I am not sure if it is going to break anything. Feel free to PM me if that is what you are looking for though.

zhuanyi

@ErawanArifNugroho said: lol.. you're teasing on me

Just want you to feel special

Taz

nah,dns record would work fine. if you everdesire to getrid of the domain, hmu though. as i am going to use it for my personal mail.

Andri

I'll give it a try. Good idea, btw.

zhuanyi

@Andri said: I'll give it a try. Good idea, btw.

Approved your account, have fun playing with it

[Deleted User]

Nice!

I still need to figure out what to do with my .asia domains =/

zhuanyi

@MannDude said: I still need to figure out what to do with my .asia domains =/

VPSNewb.Asia? That would be pretty cool if someone get IAmA.VPSNewb.Asia or IWasA.VPSNewb.Asia

zhuanyi

IAmNot.BornIn.Asia is also taken, bed time for me now, I want to see how the smart LET members come up with even more creative names when I get up tomorrow morning

acarrascope

@zhuanyi I have another domain that you can add in your project, more options for LET users. PMe for details.

Andri

godwas.bornin.asia would be a catchy name, right?

budingyun

I'm interested to get 1.

Randy

where did i help you?

i am honoured to see this

Thanks

shoot me a pm if there is anything i can help you with

zhuanyi

just got up and approved whyareyou.bornin.asia and iwasnot.bornin.asia!

zhuanyi

@Andri said: godwas.bornin.asia would be a catchy name, right?

Sure, I don't think there is a taker for that subdomain yet

zhuanyi

@budingyun said: I'm interested to get 1.

I will make sure your account is approved

fway

Count me in buddy

zhuanyi

@fway said: Count me in buddy

and you are approved! enjoy!

Legendlink

@zhuanyi said: iwasnot.bornin.asia

Looks like I have a rival!

zhuanyi

@Zen said: My domain wehost.asia would be better suited for this

sure, if you are interested send me a PM and I'll add your domain to be one of the domains users could choose from.

zhuanyi

Got my first fraud order today: someone registering with an address in China and his last name is Chevrolet (which is clearly not a Chinese surname) and use an Australian IP address and some info that was copied from http://xyor.net/forum.php, which amazingly, use the Singlehop logo...

Interesting how people would like to take advantage of this free offering

wdq

This is a very interesting idea.

William

@zhuanyi said: Interesting how people would like to take advantage of this free offering

Subdomains for botnet C&Cs & spam reverse dns.

zhuanyi

@William said: Subdomains for botnet C&Cs & spam reverse dns.

Any tips on how to deal with them other than manually going through every single order? I don't mind doing that since I do not have that many orders coming in anyways but if you have any other tip it would be great.

And I have already limited the numbers of emails that could be sent in CPanel, and the service is free shared hosting and does not comes with shells also.

gbshouse

@zhuanyi - you can add IP check for registration:

• check if IP is known proxy using proxies.dnsbl.sorbs.net
• check if IP is known TOR exit using torexit.dan.me.uk
• check if IP is known abusive host using rhsbl.ahbl.org

zhuanyi

Another LET member signed up last evening with a phone number 5555555555, please note that again, even if you have PMed me on LET, you will still need to register using real personal information. If you are worried that the information is not secured with me, please kindly look for someone else.

zhuanyi

Also the member has registered a fairly offensive subdomain, please note that actions like this won't be allowed, I really hope bornin.asia could stay politically-neutral and not become a target for DDos and so on.