I was showing over 100,000 files in my bluehost account. This was causing warnings and messages to appear throughout the control panel telling me I could be in violation of the terms of service.

Your account contains more than 9740 directories and may pose a potential performance risk to the server.
Please reduce the number of directories for your account to prevent possible account deactivation.

I cut that number down to about 80,000 by reducing some caching and removing themes from WordPress that I wasn’t using. I then opened a chat session to find out the real scoop.

Basically the Unlimited limits are:

200,000 files and 1000 MySQL tables.

The support Tech said what I have is normal, and not to worry. Anytime it gets over 50,000 it triggers the messages, and to just keep it under the 200k and 1000 table limit and I’m fine.

Drew: [6:45:45 PM] Unless your files get above 200,000 you won’t need to worry.

pair.net

As you are aware, —— is working toward migrating services from its existing data center to a new data center facility. These changes will allow us to operate with an improved hardware infrastructure. During the originally scheduled date (—– –th), —— encountered some technical issues. Due to these issues, we made the decision to roll back all migration activities at that time. We have taken an extensive look at the issues that occurred, and are making every effort to prevent these going forward. We have rescheduled the migration activities, and are writing to inform you of the new date and time as well as the expected impacts.

Translation: We screwed up the first time, we think we fixed it, so we are going to try this again.

Received this email:

Dear Customer.

Is your Gmail Account Active. Yes/No.

Shows a return path of:  Return-Path: <messenger05@susukiyamah111.com>

also some other telling items:

Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (173.201.193.246)
by p3plwbeout17-05.prod.phx3.secureserver.net with SMTP;

That IP (173.201.193.246) is registered to GoDaddy. What are the chances Google is using GoDaddy to send email? (zero)

Definitely NOT a legit email.

Below is a screen-shot of the email from within Gmail.

The solution is to either change the category base name to something else, or change the permalink name on that page to something different.

Now a simple view source shows their ad manipulation, the ad size is 336×280. They went and changed the setting google_ad_width to be 337, and google_ad_height to be 260 (removing 20 pixels) and therefore hiding the “Ads by Google” text from the ad.

This is a good way to get your account disabled! Bad bad practice!

How to you avoid having duplicate content?

Add this simple php code to your page header:

if ($_SERVER['HTTPS'] == "on") {
echo "put the no-index meta tag here";
}
?>


Please be sure and TEST this on your own server throughly so as to not inadvertently no-index all your pages!

Download Calming 2010 Theme

Example Site using Calming 2010 Child Theme

Check out the Google Hacker version of their pages!

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-hacker

URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration

on 1and1, create a blank file called php.ini, and place the following line in the file.

allow_url_fopen = ON

then upload the file to the root folder of the domain, and it should solve the problem.