Affordable-Hosting-Services
provides web hosting to numerous clients which means that we have a responsibility
to protect each client and to provide the best services available. The
following guidelines were established to ensure these crucial obligations
are met.
These Policies, Guidelines,
and Disclaimer are intended for all domains residing on Affordable-Hosting-Services,
including regular hosting clients, resellers, and their clients. We ask
that all clients reselling our hosting services in any way, including those
providing non-virtual hosting services, implement these same Policies,
Guidelines, and Disclaimers into their own web sites to ensure that the
same are understood and met by their clients.
UNLIMITED
TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS:
UNLIMITED TRAFFIC does not
apply to any domain account consuming 20% or more of systems resources.
Following are a list of sites that will often require more than 20% of
our systems resources: Multiple domains residing at a single IP address,
domains with archives or galleries, (i.e. .gif, .jpg, .exe, .zip, .tar,
etc.), and domain accounts offering download files.
We are not saying that your
web site can not contain such files, however if at any time they consume
20% or more of our systems resources you will be contacted to resolve the
problem.
UNACCEPTABLE
ACTIVITIES:
These include spamming (sending
unsolicited advertising to those with which the customer has no existing
business relationship, posting off-topic advertising in newsgroups); spoofing
(using a return email address which is not the valid reply address of the
sender or sending an email message which does not contain enough information
to enable the recipient to identify the party who is really sending the
message; passive spamming (promoting a web site hosted by Affordable-Hosting-Services
by spamming from some other source), trolling (posting controversial messages
in newsgroups to generate responses), mailbombing (inundating a user with
email without any serious intent to correspond), generating a higher volume
of outgoing mail than a normal user (20% or more of available system resources),
and subscribing someone else to an electronic mailing list without that
person's permission. A message is considered unsolicited if it is posted
in violation of a newsgroup charter or sent to a recipient who has not
requested the message. Making an email address available to the public
does not constitute a request to receive messages. Distribution of mass
emailing programs is also prohibited. All recipients on a mailing list
must have personally subscribed. Mailing lists may not be used to distributed
unsolicited email. Any customer repeatedly "mailbombed" or that attracts
such behavior will be asked to leave. If you are not sure if your actions
will be in violation, please ask first (abuse@affordable-hosting-services.com).
Age. The client must be
18 years of age to obtain our service.
Abuse
of the legal rights of others:
Examples of unacceptable
activities in this regard include posting private information about a person
without their consent, infringing intellectual property rights, defaming
a person or business, and knowingly making available code which will have
a deleterious effect on third party computers. Affordable-Hosting-Services
supports free speech on the Internet, and will not suspend or cancel a
customer. s account simply because it disagrees with the views expressed
by the customer. Where there are allegations that a customer. s on-line
activity has violated the legal rights of a third party, Affordable-Hosting-Services
will not substitute itself for a court of law in deciding tort claims raised
by the third party.
Abuse
of the law:
Affordable-Hosting-Services
may be used for lawful purposes only. Illegality includes but is not limited
to: drug dealing; attempting without authorization to access a computer
system; pirating (distributing copyrighted material in violation of copyright
law, specifically MP3s, MPEG's, ROMs, and ROM emulators); gambling; schemes
to defraud; trafficking in obscene material; sending a message or having
content that is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent with intent
to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person; threatening bodily
harm or damage to individuals or groups; violating U.S. export restrictions;
stalking; or violating other state or federal law such as the Electronic
Communications Privacy Act, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, or the Economic
Espionage Act. Linking to illegal material is also prohibited. Site Host
4 U reserves the right to check system files, email, and other data on
our servers for illegal content and materials, or for any other reasons
deemed necessary.
Pornography:
Pornography and sex-related
merchandising, or links to such material, even if legal, is not an acceptable
use of Affordable-Hosting-Services.
Abuse
of Affordable-Hosting-Services Server Resources:
Running programs in the
background on a Affordable-Hosting-Services server without Affordable-Hosting-Services
prior written authorization, or running chat rooms, Internet Relay Chat,
IRC bots, and the like are not acceptable uses of Affordable-Hosting-Services
servers. Further, any usage of twenty percent (20%) or more of our system
resources is an undue burden on our system and is unacceptable. If your
usage ever exceeds twenty percent (20%) of system resources, you will be
contacted and asked to eliminate the problem. In addition, any domain that
exceeds ten gigabytes of bandwidth traffic can be terminated without prior
notice.
Hacking/Cracking:
Affordable-Hosting-Services
reserves the right to report illegal activities to any and all regulatory,
administrative, and/or governmental authorities for prosecution.
OTHER
BEHAVIOR:
The following examples of
unacceptable behavior are non-exclusive, and are provided for guidance
purposes. If you are unsure if your actions will be a violation of our
policies please ask abuse@Affordable-Hosting-Services.com
Server broadcast messages
or any message sent on an intrusive basis to any directly or indirectly
attached network Attempt to circumvent any user authentication or security
of host, network, or account. Accessing data not intended for user. Probing
the security of any network. Spawning dozens of processes. Port scans,
ping floods, packet spoofing, forging router information, Denial of Service
attacks, sniffers, flooding, spoofing, ping bombing, smurfs, winnuke, land,
teardrop. Promulgation of viruses. IRC bots such as eggdrop or BitchX.
Any activity, whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption or
loss of data, will be investigated and proper action taken. The presence
of any of these programs, whether or not run, will result in action against
the user including suspension or termination.
CLIENT
RESPONSIBILITY:
The client is responsible
for all activity originating from the account unless proven to be a victim
of outside hacking or address forgery. The client is responsible for securing
their username/password. Use of Affordable-Hosting-Services service requires
a certain level of knowledge in the use of Internet languages, protocols,
and software. This level of knowledge varies depending on the anticipated
use and desired content of the web space by the client. The following examples
are offered: Web Publishing: requires knowledge of HTML, properly locating
and linking documents, FTPing Web contents, Graphics, text, sound, image
mapping, etc. FrontPage web publishing: knowledge of the FrontPage tools
as well as Telnet and FTP understanding and capability. CGI-Scripts: requires
a knowledge of the UNIX environment, TAR & GUNZIP commands, Perl, CShell
scripts, permissions, etc. Mail: a use of mail clients to receive and send
mail, etc. The client agrees that he or she has the necessary knowledge
to create and maintain their web space. Client agrees that it is not the
responsibility of Affordable-Hosting-Services to provide this knowledge
or support outside matter specific to Affordable-Hosting-Services servers.
BACKUPS:
Full backups are made weekly,
and backups of new/changed data made nightly. No guarantees are made of
any kind, either expressed or implies, as to the integrity of these backups.
Backups are made for server restoration purposes only. It is the clients.
responsibility to maintain local copies of their web content any information.
If loss of data occurs due to an error of Affordable-Hosting-Services,
Affordable-Hosting-Services will attempt to recover the date for no charge
to the client. If data loss occurs due to negligence of client in securing
their account or by an action of the client, Affordable-Hosting-Services
will attempt to recover the data from the most recent archive for a $60.00
fee.
IP
NUMBERS:
Affordable-Hosting-Services
maintains control and any ownership of any and all I.P. numbers and addresses
that may be assigned to the client and reserves in its sole discretion
the right to change or remove any and all IP numbers and addresses.
LIMITATION
OF LIABILITY:
Affordable-Hosting-Services
shall not be responsible for any claimed damages, including incidental
and consequential damages, which may arise from Affordable-Hosting-Services
servers going off-line or being unavailable for any reason whatsoever.
Further, Affordable-Hosting-Services shall not be responsible for any claimed
damages, including incidental or consequential damages, resulting from
the corruption or deletion of any web site from one of Affordable-Hosting-Services
servers. All damages shall be limited to the immediate termination of service.
Affordable-Hosting-Services
shall be the sole arbiter of what is and is not a violation of these acceptable
use policies. Affordable-Hosting-Services reserves the right to terminate
an account at any time and for any reason that causes harm to any Affordable-Hosting-Services
customer's web sites. Affordable-Hosting-Services reserves the right to
delete all content and files upon termination. Affordable-Hosting-Services
reserves the right to withhold any pre-paid funds for any site removed
for violations of these policies. Site Host 4 U reserves the right to refuse,
cancel, or suspend service at our sole discretion.
Affordable-Hosting-Services
reserves the right to change these Policies without prior notice or warning.
Non-enforcement of any part of these Policies does not constitute consent.
Money
Back Policy
We do not give nor offer
ANY money back for partial months hosting or anything else.
Violations of these Policies should
be referred to abuse@Affordable-Hosting-Services.com
All complaints will be investigated
promptly.
