Web Hosts & Terms of Service
I was having a poke around at various hosting companies today to see what was on offer, and having a look through there 'terms of service'.
Although I've not found a better host than the one I'm with, the terms of service I found at Easy Internet Solutions were quite remarkable. Under the heading 'Direct Violation Examples' was "Running of software than listens on any TCP/UDP port".
Does that not pose a slight problem for a web host not allowing IIS/Apache or any other web service to run on there servers?
For the curious it's near the end there AUP (or was on 3rd Feb, 2007).
posted by Sheff @ 3:05 pm
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2 Comments:
Hi,
In a shared hosting environment, that's not a problem as the web hosting company actually runs the Apache web server. If a customer were to attempt to run their own webserver software, it'll conflict with the Shared Hosting one - causing problems for all customers. Therefore it's quite a sensible restriction IMHO.
Possibly, but in a shared hosting arrangement you can't (in my experiance) mess around with the configurations or install apps, there ftp access only, no root or admin privs. I can't see a shared host allowing software changes to there server, or they wouldn't be able to support it... So I'll stand by my original comment!
I certainly wouldn't use a web host that doesn't allow you to serve requests. What your talking about should be covered in what scripts or other changes that you can make to the server, not what requests (i.e. none) your can serve.
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