Cube Host Acceptable Use Policy
Condensed Version - 2003-03-29
- No Spam
- No Adult Material
- No Copyrighted Material
- No Illegal Content (Illegal defined as within any and all
jurisdictions within the United States of America)
- No Warez
- No Daemons without prior authorization
- No IRC Daemons
- No IRC bots without prior approval
- No Proxies or Relays of any kind (including web, ssh, irc, audio, video)
- No Illegal Activity or Unauthorized Usage of any systems anywhere
originating or transporting through our resources (no Cracking/Hacking)
- Excessive usage of resources is prohibited
- No web-casting, broadcasting or other streaming media from normal
web accounts or shell accounts
- No subversion of computer, operating system or physical security
- No binding to ports less than 1024 without prior approval
- No game servers without prior authorization
Violations of any of the above rules may result in any or all of the following
actions to be taken.
- Shell Suspension/Termination
- FTP Account Suspension/Termination
- Mailbox Suspension/Termination
- Domain Name Resolution Suspension/Termination/Redirection
- Domain Name Suspension/Termination/Redirection/Revocation of Registration
- Web Site Suspension/Termination/Redirection
- For EMail related violations, fines up to $10 per recipient and/or $10/ 1024 bytes
- For Excessive Bandwidth/Data Transfer violations, fines up to 2 * current Cube Host
prices or $1000, whichever is greater
- For excessive data storage violations, fines up to 2 * current Cube Host
prices or $250, whichever is greater
- Civil Prosecution
- Criminal Prosecution
Please note: Excessive usage does not generally refer to occasions where
your website, email accounts or log files expand rapidly due to sudden popularity
on the Internet (a.k.a the Slashdot Effect). Excessive usage refers to
that which is a direct result of your actions that has not been pre-arranged and
that affects other client's access to said services (examples would be filling up a
hard drive or a service gone wild and flooding an Internet link).