Usenet-Providers.com

Terms & Conditions

Usenet Providers provides services to clients all around the world. Usenet Providers has the responsibility to protect each client and provide them with the best services available. The following guidelines were designed to insure these services.

Content

All services provided by Usenet Providers, may be used for lawful purposes only. Transmission, storage, or presentation of any information, data or material in violation of any United States Federal, State or City law is prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: copyrighted material, material we judge to be threatening or obscene, unlicensed software or files, or material protected by trade secret and other statue. The subscriber agrees to indemnify and hold harmless Usenet Providers, Inc. from any claims resulting from the use of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party.

Examples of non-acceptable content or links:

Usenet Providers, Inc will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision.

Unlimited Traffic/Hits & Web Space

Usenet Providers is pleased to offer our clients unlimited traffic, hits and web space to maintain the integrity of our service the usage of account for backup or file storage is not allowed as well as the following kind of activities, traffic and usage:

If you do not qualify for unlimited traffic/hits, your account may be required to be upgraded, or Usenet Providers may move your site to a different server, to reduce the load on the server you are currently residing. Usenet Providers will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of usage limitations. At any time Usenet Providers may move your site to a different server, to reduce the load on the server you are currently residing.

Inode Usage

Usenet Providers has inodes limit set for each hosting account on shared and reseller servers. The number of inodes employed by single cpanel account should not exceed more than two hundred and fifty thousand 250,000 inodes on any shared or reseller account. if limit of 250,000 inodes reached- account may be suspended for TOS violation, while Usenet Providers will send a warning email to client beforehand. If a specific user upload/create enormous amount of files on regular basis, use disk space as storage and keep thousands of files/photos/emails - he will be queued for investigation and put at risk of suspension.

Chat Rooms

Usenet Providers does allow clients to install their own chat rooms. However, these tend to be large system hogs and may fall into the usage limitations clause. We do provide a html based cgi chatroom that runs without hindering the performance of the machine for others. You are free to run your own chat script, as long as it does not hinder server performance.

Background Processes/Programs

Usenet Providers may allow programs to run continually in the background, these are considered on a one to one basis and a extra charge may be incured based on system resources used and operational maintenance needed.

Cron Jobs

Usenet Providers does allow Cron Jobs to be conducted on our servers.

IRC

Usenet Providers currently does not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on our servers.

Multiple Connections

Multiple telnet and ftp sessions are allowed, on a single hosting account.

Idle Timeouts

Usenet Providers may disconnect any idle connection to the network.

Average timeouts are

FTP - 300 seconds

Telnet - 2 hours

Commercial Advertising - Email

Spamming, or the sending of unsolicited email, from a Usenet Providers server or using an email address that is maintained on a Usenet Providers machine is STRICTLY prohibited. For general reference, we consider spam any email that is sent to more than 10 people at a time that did not ask for it to be sent to them.

Usenet Providers will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of this provision. Opt-In email is acceptable, as long as Opt-Out/Removal request are fully honored. Please make an effort to limit outgoing mail on your account to no more than 5000 pieces per DAY and no more than 20 pieces per minute. Many times we have seen sites push over 1000 emails in one hit, this causes extreme server loads and prevents other people from accessing server services. Large mailings are preferred to be sent from the hours of 12AM - 8AM EST. Sites with large mailing databases, need to be placed on dedicated server or VPS platform.

Server Abuse

Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a Usenet Providers server or customer of Usenet Providers is strictly prohibited. Usenet Providers will pursue legal action to the fullest extent for all abuse of the Usenet Providers Network.

Suspension/De-Activation

If any terms or conditions are failed to be followed it will result in grounds for account suspension or de-activation. Usenet Providers reserves the right to remove any account without prior notice. If Usenet Providers deactivates your account(s) for violating policy, your will forfeit your rights to a refund...and none will be given. No refunds for advance payments, on de-activated accounts. Normal policy is a warning first, and account de-activation the second offense. Serious offenses may cause immediate de-activation.