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Hosting companies sometimes put a brand, and make you pay a little more to have it removed. There is no way to remove this as it is usually hard-coded into the admin panel that they use.
Check their forums to see the price of removal, and they might be able to tell you. I hate branding because if you rent the server, it should be yours to customize.
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03-16-2009, 01:56 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-16-2009, 01:57 AM by realchamp.)
branded = A branded server is a server with the hosting companies name in the server name.
Like: SRCDS.COM | War-Server 100TICK
If it weren't branded, you could name it anything.
Well, it shouldn't be possible. HLSW takes the IP and looks it up in a database. And then it sets the Hosting Name(country etc).
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Arin registers ip to a certain company, and thats where HLSW gets its info from
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its a simple task of using a database to view the ip owner information. If you owned the ipaddress that your box is hosted on you would be able to designate the name yourself. I heard it was possible to trick it with certain masking porgrams... Don't know how though.
*Windows lack of output*
You: Hey, I want to run this program!
Windows: Ok.. It crashed... Now what? Give up?
You:...wtf...
*linux output helpful?*
You: ./My_program
Linux:...Failed!...oo kitties!
You:...wtf...