Acceptable Uses Police (AUP)
Policies apply automatically to all Guru-host Group clients upon subscription to the Services including subscription through a third party or any commercial partner. Customer agrees to use the Services only for lawful purposes, in compliance with all applicable law.
Specific activities that are prohibited include, but are not limited to:
Threatening harm to persons or property or otherwise harassing behavior.
Violating British export control laws for software or technical information.
Misrepresenting or fraudulently representing products/services
Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation.
Transmission, distribution or storage of any material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or other intellectual property right without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, an invasion of privacy or constitutes an illegal threat, or is otherwise illegal.
Facilitating, aiding, or encouraging any of the above activities, whether using Guru-host inc.’s network or service by itself or via a third party’s network or service.
Interference with a third party’s use of Guru-host's network or service, or ability to connect to the Internet or provide services to Internet users.
Guru-host has a STRONG anti-spam policy and applies it. Spammers are NOT welcomed. This includes spamming through open proxy servers or any other kind of unsolicited email advertising. If a customer is found to be in violation of our SPAM policy, Guru-host may, at its sole discretion, restrict, suspend or terminate customer's account without notice.
Sending unsolicited email messages, including, without limitation, commercial advertising and informational announcements, is explicitly prohibited even if the lists are said to be opt-in.
Customer will not use another site's mail server to relay mail without the express permission of the site.
It is strictly forbidden to send out unsolicited email from any other network that advertises, promotes or in any way points to a location inside Guru-host's. network.
IRC networks
It is absolutely forbidden to host an IRC server that is part of or connected to another IRC network or server. Servers found to be connecting to or part of these networks will be immediately removed from our network without notice. The server will not be reconnected to the network until such time that you agree to completely remove any and all traces of the irc server, and agree to let us have access to your server to confirm that the content has been completely removed. Any server guilty of a second violation will result in immediate account termination.
Adult content
Legal adult content must be published in accordance of any applicable law or regulation. Guru-host reserves the right to suspend any account publishing offending content.
System and Network Security
Customer is prohibited from utilizing Guru-host's services to compromise the security or tamper with system resources or accounts on computers at the Premises or at any third party site.
Specific activities that are prohibited include, but are not limited to:
Threatening harm to persons or property or otherwise harassing behavior.
Use or distribution of tools designed for compromising security.
Unauthorized access to or use of data, systems or networks, including any attempt to probe, scan or test the vulnerability of a system or network or to breach security or authentication measures without express authorization of the owner of the system or network.
Unauthorized monitoring of data or traffic on any network or system without express authorization of the owner of the system or network.
Deliberate attempts to overload a system and broadcast attacks.
Forging of any TCP-IP packet header or any part of the header information in an email or a newsgroup posting.
Intentionally or negligently transmitting files containing a computer virus or corrupted data.
Resource usage
On shared hosting accounts, it is strictly forbidden, without prior written authorization, to allow a third party or the user of another web hosting service to use or access your account's resources. Without limitation, this applies to usage of an account to provide public online services like statistics, image hosting or any other service targeted to external web sites. At anytime, all shared hosting accounts must use an acceptable level of resources and stay below 2-3% of the total system resources.
Detailed resource usage restrictions:
Processes invoked by the web server, cron, shell or any other method should not exceed the following limitations:
- Consume more than 32 MBs of RAM.
- Utilize in excess of 15 seconds of CPU time (per CPU)
- Number of open files should not exceed 180.
- Execute a script/binary that forks in a way to create a fork bomb.
- Send outbound mail to more than 200 recipients at any given time.
Database restrictions:
- All users are restricted to 15 concurrent MySQL connections.
- Each database is restricted to 1,000 MBs of disk space.
- Database queries should not exceed 2,000 per hour.
- Database changes (insert/update/delete) should not exceed 500 queries per hour.
- Database servers should not be used as a hosted solution. Database access should only be used for the web site hosted by Guru-host.
General misc. restrictions:
- The use/creation of more than 30,000 files within any given account.
- Single directories that contain more than 2,500 files.
- Simultaneous Apache connections in excess of 50.
- Use the find command recursively on directories more than 2 levels deep.
- All cron jobs must be 'niced' to 15 or greater.
- All cron jobs should not execute more than once every 15 minutes.
- Our servers should not be used as an SSH bounce point to other servers/networks.
The installation and/or execution of a script and/or binary that runs in the background or listens on a given port are strictly prohibited. If you require a bot, service, daemon or similar to run you should consider a dedicated server or a VPS (Virtual Private Server)
Rights reserve
Guru-host reserves the right to modify this AUP at any time without notice.
Customer is responsible for all use of the Services by itself, its employees, agents, contractors, invitees and customers, whether such use is with or without the consent of Customer.