Cents, Earnings And Credits - Confusing one with another

wutske

Dec 18 2008, 10:08 AM

So, I can buy a domain name with MyEarnings too ?
Because there is some post about the new credit system which says I need 999 MyCents to buy a new domain name.

Would be nice, I have no clue how I managed to get $42 MyEarnings

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Quatrux

Dec 18 2008, 11:50 AM

I don't know, but if I remember right, for 10$ you can get a domain name here? I remember in some posts reading something like this, but I'm not sure if it's true anymore, so I guess 999 myCENTs is ~10$ or 9.99$

So I guess you need to pay 10$ every year or every month for a top level domain here? of myEarnings? ;]

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Nabb

Dec 18 2008, 02:48 PM

You have $42 because you've been here for a long time and made many posts. When you registered, it counted all your previously made posts. Yes you can buy a domain, your earnings are as good as money deposited into the billing website from Paypal or something (unless you're cheating the system and found out ).

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Quatrux

Dec 18 2008, 03:15 PM

Yes, I can confirm that the old guys got a lot more myEarnings, same for me, when I registered with the new system I got something like 38$ I don't even remember, but with those I needed to order a logic plan which cost ~6$ and later pay for a month for it, also another ~6$ and as I see the current number of myEarnings growing, those 38$ given for the old guys, I doubt that that sum is for all the previous posts, because for a 1000 normal posts it should be much more, so I guess there was some kind of algorithm, besides when changing system most of guys had credits to stay for at least 60 days, so thats is for ~2 months, some less some more, but that also counts.

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Quatrux

Dec 18 2008, 10:39 PM

No Lancer, every month you need to pay for your hosting account (even though thats done automatically), for the plan you have ordered in the xisto client panel.. So it is usually 1.99$ - 5.95$

So if you have $20 of myEarnings and lets say you pay every month 5.95$ so you can be offline for 3 months and some days.. until your Earnings will be near $0... myEarnings are the same as real money for "Paid" hosting, just that you earn them by posting here on Astahost or Trap17 or on both of the forums.. You can do anything you like with those Earnings as it is real money in Xisto corporation or at least in their hosting client panel..

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sakmac

Jan 1 2009, 02:50 PM

Yeah, it is when you have earnt 100 + mycents then it is converted and it is displayed on your thing, so you can see how much money you've earnt from all of your posts. Also, sometime you could have like 200+ mycents ready to be converted. For example you can have 267.04 mycents, so next time the script runs you'll have 2 dollars and then some.

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Atomic0

Dec 31 2008, 04:29 AM

Thanks for the reply!

I can peacefully vacation for a few days without having to worry about the billing for the hosting, since I have enough balance for a few months of hosting.

Happy holidays!

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Quatrux

Dec 24 2008, 12:39 PM

Atomic0,

The amount of required myEarnings is taken from your account every month automatically, even though I don't know what happens if you don't have the required amount, I guess you got to minus? -1.99$

All the Invoices is in the Xisto client panel which you can print.

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Atomic0

Dec 24 2008, 05:52 AM

I have had no problems after ordering a hosting plan with new Credit System, although I encountered a few problems trying to setup properly the Google Mail to work properly on my domain, which were eventually fixed.

However, I do have one question that I haven't seen an answer to. Does the hosting system automatically bill when the recurring amount is due and take it from the existing account balance?

Thanks in advance.

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Quatrux

Dec 20 2008, 01:10 PM

Personally, I like to have a username.astahost.com account and a top level domain over my subdomain, I mean using Addon domain, it feels like I have more control over it, even though maybe it doesn't really matter.

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