Hostgator Announcements : TOS Update: INODES

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This is the official hostgator announcement posted by GatorRich on 06 April 2007

We have made a recent change to our Terms of Service that refers to INODES. This is effective as of today. For the most part this change will not impact most accounts. However, an INODE is used when you create a file or folder. This change doesn’t mean that you can’t use the full disk space for your package it simply means you can’t have 200 gb of 15kb files. For most websites you will not even get close to 50,000 inodes.

The reason we have placed this change on our Terms of Service is due to that the abuse of INODES can cause problems with the System Journals. When this happens it can also cause the hard drive to fail sooner then it should. This also can increase the time for longer emergency restores.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact us!

[Changes made]

Old TOS Resource Usage

7.) Resource Usage
User may not:
a) Use 25% or more of system resources for longer then 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
b) Run any type of interactive real-time chat applications that require server resources. Remotely-hosted services are fully allowed.
c) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
d) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
e) Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client.
f) Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities
g) Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1492, etc
h) Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes

When using PHP include functions for including a local file, include the local file rather than the URL. Instead of include(”http://yourdomain.com/include.php”) use include(”include.php”)

New TOS:

7a.) Resource Usage
User may not:
a) Use 25% or more of system resources for longer then 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
b) Run any type of interactive real-time chat applications that require server resources. Remotely-hosted services are fully allowed.
c) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
d) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
e) Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client.
f) Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities
g) Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1492, etc
h) Run cron entries with intervals of less than 15 minutes

When using PHP include functions for including a local file, include the local file rather than the URL. Instead of include(”http://yourdomain.com/include.php”) use include(”include.php”)
7b.) INODES
The use of more then 50,000 INODES will result in account suspension. Accounts found exceeding 50,000 INODES will not be backed up on our backup servers. A INODE is the actual file or directory and not the size of that file or directory. For example your index.html file is 1 INODE. A directory called homework is counted as 1 INODE as well.

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