WebNova General Terms of Service
Fair Usage Policy (Unlimited Hosting)
Webnova offers Hosting Packages with high-limit or unlimited amounts of disk space and/or other resources, such as bandwidth transfer, email or FTP accounts.
It is acknowledged by users that these resource allotments are optimized and dedicated towards serving web documents and self-need email services and is not to be used as storage area for electronic files, or as a provisioning service for 3rd party email or FTP hosts. All downloadable files or files stored on server must be available for download via a HTML document stored on hosted account in publicly accessible area and must be directly related to the general nature of the website index.
Following (including but not limited to), is NOT PERMITTED.
- Use of the hosting as a virtual disk, or in other words, as a space for files that are not elements of your website.
- Hosting of Web Portals and/or subscription based services.
- Illegal contents including, but not limited to pirated software, music, films, applications or other media stored in any file formats or extension. Online storage of file achieves, backups, documents, log files etc.
- FTP Service / File Sharing services.
- Use of hosting as a "mirror" for other websites.
- Sharing of your account.
Having high-limit or unlimited access to resources does not mean, that you can use your hosting in a such a way that it negatively affects the server operation, for illegal purposes or in any way that violates applicable legislation.
It is also acknowledged by users that these resources are limited by physical restraints of technology as well as by reasonable limits of a shared resource environment. Users must realize that server technology limits the amount of available resources for use, including but not limited to disk drive space, CPU processing power, memory and access speed. It is furthermore acknowledged by users that all provided services are of a shared-server nature, and other users are sharing the provided space. Customer accounts are placed on a server with up to hundreds of other users. Webnova along with many other hosting providers use this business model in order to offer web hosting services at affordable rates. Unlimited resource packages are designed to meet the typical needs of small business and home business website. It is NOT intended to support the sustained demand of large enterprises, internationally based businesses, or non-typical applications better suited to a dedicated server.
It is acknowledged that any single account is entitled to utilize the server resources, within reason, up to what is allotted or by what is physically available. If resources become scarce, Webnova reserves the right to limit users of the affected machine to a lower limit to preserve the effectiveness of the service for all users. If a particular user is in extreme excess of what the average users of the machine have in use (actually used) of their resource allotments, that customer may be asked to remove content, cut resource usage, or relocate to a dedicated server. This policy only applies to web sites that are considered to be abusive in service, disk space or resource consumption and where it is evident that the "fair-use" of resources among customers has been breached, particularly in regards to disk space, bandwidth or CPU processing power utilization. Web sites that are found to contain either/or no html documents, a large number of unlinked files are subject to warning, suspension or cancellation at the sole discretion of Webnova.
If a "Fair-Usage" breach occurs, which's determination is solely up to Webnova, subscriber may have to remove files from or reduce access to subscriber's account to an extent as determined by Webnova, in order to restore full serviceability to other subscribers affected by the breach. In any case, the subscriber will be notified of any actions that Webnova may have to take.
In order to ensure a consistent and quality experience for all Subscribers, Webnova does place automated safeguards to protect against any one site growing too quickly and adversely impacting the system until Webnova can evaluate said sites resource needs. Webnova reserves the right to limit processor time, bandwidth, or processes in cases where it is necessary to prevent negatively impacting other Subscribers.