Acceptable Use Policy / Terms of Service

All services 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, or material protected by trade 
secret and other statute. The subscriber agrees to indemnify
and hold us harmless from any claims resulting from the use
of the service which damages the subscriber or any other party. 

Note: Pornography, Nudity and sex-related merchandising are 
prohibited on all servers. This includes sites that may infer
sexual content, or link to adult content elsewhere. This is 
also true for sites that promote any illegal activity or 
content that may be damaging to our servers or any other 
server on the internet. Links to such materials are also 
prohibited. In addition any site selling 
out side of reseller’s account or promoting Bulk email 
services or software is not allowed.

Examples of non-acceptable content or links: 
•	Pirated software 
•	Hackers programs or archives 
•	Warez Sites 
•	Irc Bots 
•	Mp3 files 

We will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a 
violation of this provision. To report abuses, contact 
abuse@beantown.org 

Traffic Guidelines
Due to the unique resource characteristics and traffic 
patterns associated with certain types of sites, the 
following are limited to limitations per month of free
traffic.

•	Sub hosting - any domain housing additional users 
•	Shareware, sound, video, image and multimedia archives 
•	Mirror sites 
•	Distribution points 
•	Any site whose primary purpose is file distribution 

CGI Scripts
Each account comes with its own cgi-bin. You are free to use any
CGI scripts you wish, however we reserve the right to disable any 
CGI script that effects normal server operation. 

Chat Rooms
We do not allow clients to install their own chat rooms. These 
tend to be large resource hogs and we cannot allow it as an 
account option. We do provide a choice of Java chat rooms that 
run without hindering the performance of the machine for others. 


Background Running Programs
We may allow programs to run continually in the background. 
These are considered on a one to one basis and an extra charge 
will be incurred based on system resources used and operational 
maintenance needed. 

IRC
We currently do not allow IRC or IRC bots to be operated on 
our servers. Commercial Advertising - Email:
Our servers may not be the source, intermediary, or destination
address involved in the transmission of spam, flames, or mail bombs. 
Your domain may not be referenced as originator, intermediary, 
or reply-to address in any of the above.
Advertising sites on other servers which in turn contain links 
to a domain on our servers is prohibited. We consider spam to 
be any unsolicited commercial email (UCE) or unsolicited bulk 
email (UBE) in the mediums of Newsgroups, Fax, and Email. 
Distribution of mass emailing programs is also prohibited.
If you are found to have spammed, then we will immediately, 
without warning, disable your domain. We reserve the right 
to refuse or cancel service to known spammers. Lastly, we 
reserve the right to determine what violates this policy. 
We take pride in having one of the strictest anti-spam 
policies. To report abuses, please contact abuse@hostr.net 

As such, any violation will result in immediate 
deactivation of services without refund. 

Server Abuse:
Any attempts to undermine or cause harm to a server is 
strictly prohibited, If you are found to have violated 
this policy, we will immediately, without warning, 
disable / terminate your account.

Refusal of Service:
We reserve the right to refuse or cancel service at our 
sole discretion. 

If any terms or conditions are failed to be followed it 
will result in grounds for immediate account deactivation.

Site Backups
Please note we do not perform or maintain site content backups. 
We do offer an additional backup service for $9.95 a month, 
this service is in addition to your monthly hosting. If you are 
not subscribed to this service, you are advised to maintain site 
backups on a regular basis.

Robert Rose

Hostr.net

info@hostr.net