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What is community based hosting?
Community based hosting is the system that the Phoenix Network uses. We offer free shell and webhosting accounts, and all we ask in return is that you are an active member in our forums and on IRC. No, we aren't asking for your life; just for some online friends and a group of good people
How to be active...
Here's the answer:
On the forums you post interesting/helpful posts or ask questions, because you want to hear other people's opinion about it. Do this a few times per week or month, depends on how busy you are.. Just let us know that YOU are active! That's all we ask.
IRC activity is much easier to accomplish. You know what you can run on the shell right? bnc, bitchx, irssi etc. In short those are the most used IRC clients. They have the ability to be connected on an IRC network while you're not even connected to the BNC or screen.(look on google if you don't know what I'm talking about). So if you don't like using your own client or ip to connect on IRC, just use your shell. The users that don't have a shell yet... Use your own connection, your ip is hostmasked anyway. Anyway I'll continue with the "super-interesting" story. After you connect your bnc, bitchx, irssi or whatever on the IRC channel we are
, but when you talk, we will be 
. Hope you get my point.Now the important part.
What will happen with users that don't get active after getting their shell account, you probably can guess it yourself. That's right...you get suspended! Don't make us do this to you! We are
online friends and a group of good people
Don't forget to read: http://phoenix-network.org/pages/irc.php
For the IRC rules.(most of these rules are the same as on the forums)
Take this as a reminder for all of the shell users on Phoenix.
