[Crimm]

Let me try to answer your questions here.

I always thought that a vent server it's self will not broadcast it's status to websites

You are correct, it will not.

"Host Yourself: requires a special host configuration and PHP Safe Mode to be off." on your website.

This means that you are running a shell script that is made by ventrilo.com that will execute on your WEB server to query the ventrilo server. Once it gets the query back it will display the results via PHP.

I run a website that I would like to use something like this on, and somsone else pays for, and runs a vent server the users of my website also use (on a different host/box than my website runs on) . The vent server does not have this mod installed on it. So, am I correct in assuming I cannot use what you call the 'self hosted' option?

The mod runs on the web server, not the ventrilo server. There are no requirements for the ventrilo server, unless the Ventrilo host BLOCKS status requests.

The requirements for hosting yourself option are so that the web server can run the shell script inside the includes folder.

but, how do I then get this onto my own site with this mod? I can't see anywhere to input my game tracker account into into this mod so it can pull the info from that website?

Choose:

GameTracker Dark
Enter your server information
Hit Save
Done - It will display now.

If I try to activate it anyway, ofc it wont work and I just get this:

That's a width issue.

Try setting the width (The value at the bottom when not utilizing vbadvanced)

*EDIT* Hopefully that will answer all your questions or at least help