Chris Farrell Membership - Free Hosting Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy

Hello!

We are happy to offer all current members free hosting for the duration of their membership at ChrisFarrellMembership.com !

We want your hosting experience here, and that of all members, to be an easy and pleasant one. By using this service, you are indicating that you have read, understood, and will comply with the following Hosting Terms of Service (TOS) and Hosting Acceptable Use Policy (AUP), both contained in this document.

In addition, you are indicating that you have read, understood, and will comply with our server provider's Acceptable Use Policies ( http://www.servint.net/policies.php ) and Terms of Service ( http://www.servint.net/termsofservice.php ) as well. Everything stated in our provider's policies and terms of service noted above flows through to you, the end user, and you must agree to abide by them as well in order to use the service. We reserve the right to refuse hosting service to anyone. Material that, in our view, is obscene, threatening, illegal, hateful, violent, or violates our terms of service or acceptable use policies in any way may be removed from our servers, or public view of the offending material suspended, with or without notice.

Please bear in mind that Chris Farrell Membership is intended to help new marketers get started with their online business. For that reason, we primarily expect to host, and are best prepared to host, the types of websites that new marketers may feel most comfortable with - primarily optin pages, sales letters with product purchase and delivery mechanisms, niche content sites, and Wordpress blogs. We will make every commercially reasonable effort to provide server disk space and network bandwidth to accommodate such sites, as long as they are in compliance with our terms of service and acceptable use policies.

While we do offer Fantastico, which allows for easy script installation of many commonly used scripts, we cannot provide support for most of those scripts that are available (beyond Wordpress). There are individual support forums for such scripts, and any questions on use or problems should be addressed there.

We don't want to restrict your business. So please understand that this may not be the best place to host potential server-intensive applications such as OS Commerce, Magento, CS-Cart, and many other shopping carts, as well as Joomla, Drupal, Delavo, and many other applications commonly used by the Internet Marketing Community, including some scripts found in Fantastico. Our free hosting is not intended to support, and cannot support, the server resource demands of large companies, and any applications such as those above, which are better suited to run on a dedicated server.

While we are happy to host any number of your domains that you own and control, without artificially imposed disk space, bandwidth, processor, or process limitations, we do reserve the right to impose such limitations on a per-member or per-site basis, as we deem necessary in our sole discretion. This is to protect the integrity and operational efficiency of the server and network for all members.

With that in mind, please observe and abide by the following rules, terms of use, acceptable use policies, and limitations:

1) Please submit hosting account requests using the ticket system at http://www.chrisfarrellhosting.com/ - please be sure to select the Hosting Account Setup form. We need the domain name you wish to host - but we don't need the "www" or "http://" portion of the domain. Please include the top level domain (such as .com, .net, .co.uk, .com.au, etc.) Please be certain you submit a valid, and active, domain that you own and control. We will not set up hosting accounts for domains that are not registered. Please allow 24-48 hours from the time you submit your ticket for hosting account setup. Your hosting details will be sent to you by email. If you don't receive this email, please check your spam folder in case your ISP or email software routed it there. In order to fairly distribute hosting support time among all members, please do not submit more than seven (7) hosting account setup request tickets at one time, nor more than a total of seven (7) total hosting account setup request tickets per week. This will allow one new site per day and shouldn't present a problem with proper planning.

2) Should you cancel your membership at Chris Farrell Membership, all of your hosting accounts will be canceled as well. We will provide at least a 14 day grace period after your cancellation date to allow you time to move your domains hosted here to another hosting provider if you wish. We will make a reasonable effort to contact you regarding this matter upon cancellation. Your files and databases are subject to deletion at any time after the 14 day grace period, and it is your responsibility to make arrangements for your files and databases, whether we are able to contact you or not. We are not able to assist in the file transfer process to other hosting - you will need to make your own arrangements for outbound site transfer.

3) We are unable to offer file and database transfers of existing live websites in to the hosting service we offer here (inbound transfers). The main reason for this is that such transfers tend to take a lot of time, which unduly delays other members' ticket requests. Inbound site transfers, often limited, are offered by some paid hosting firms. Remember, we are offering a free hosting service to all Chris Farrell Membership members, and so are unable to offer this service in that context. We encourage you to find a freelance webmaster services provider to handle this task for you, if you aren't comfortable with it yourself.

4) All domains that we host must be owned and controlled by you, the member. Please do not submit hosting requests for friends, family members, coworkers, clients, etc. As hosting is a free service offered only to members of Chris Farrell Membership, any violations of this policy will result in immediate cancellation of all hosting accounts that have been requested by the member in question. Please do not get offended if, in enforcing this policy, we occasionally ask questions to clarify the nature of your relationsihop with a particular domain that you have requested that we host here.

5) You should not count on Chris Farrell Hosting for site backups - backups of your website files and databases. Your use of our service is at your sole risk. While our provider does do occasional backups, they should not be considered as a reliable, regularly scheduled backup service. Should we ultimately resort to those backups to restore a site at your request, you will be expected to pay 100% of any data recovery charges imposed on Chris Farrell Hosting by our provider. We do investigate various backup implementations from time to time, and if and when that is available, we will announce it to the membership. In the meantime, backups of your websites are completely your responsibility. Please watch our videos on this topic if you don't know how to do your own site backups, or search Youtube for "Cpanel Backup". We are not responsible for file or data loss or corruption due to your failure to make appropriate backups.

6) If any application, PHP or otherwise, starts to cause server problems due to security, memory resource usage, etc., we reserve the right, entirely at our discretion, to disable the offending application until a solution can be implemented. Any such solution is your responsbility to find and implement. To protect all members, we can't allow any one server application to negatively impact server performance or security for everyone else. Particularly troublesome, very often, are Wordpress plugins that allow 3rd parties to access your Wordpress installation, through CURL for example. Such plugins are highly discouraged, as they are among the first things we look at when determining which processes are constantly consuming more than their fair share of server resources, especially server memory.

7) We don't allow autoresponder software to be installed (such as ListmailPro or AutoresponsePlus). Those create too many risks all the way around for all of our members.

8) We don't allow server-based services such as linking services, FFA, statistics tracking services, file-sharing etc. You can promote those things, but you may not run the services themselves on our server.

9) Any script (PHP or otherwise) that opens, or attempts to open, large security holes, or tries to access other users' files, will be suspended / removed right away.

10) Any site hosted here that is found to contain a virus or any other malware will be suspended and isolated until the offending software is removed. Removal is your responsibility.

11) We do not allow hosting of warez sites, nor any site that is illegal or promotes or advocates anything illegal, or sites that advocate hatred or violence in any form. We do not allow hosting of hard core porn sites, nor promotion of hard core porn sites. This prohibition specifically includes, but is in no way limited to, child pornography, and sites linking to or otherwise promoting child pornography or anything perceived to be, or intended to be perceived as, child pornography. All sites that appear to be violating child pornography laws or any other laws will be reported to the proper authorities. Sites promoting "adult novelties" or "adult toys" and items of a similar nature are generally allowed, at the sole discretion of Chris Farrell Hosting. All hosting accounts offered by Chris Farrell Hosting may only be used for lawful purposes. The laws of the State of California and the United States of America will apply. You agree that in the event of any legal action, the courts of Los Angeles County, California, USA will have sole jurisdiction. You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Chris Farrell, Chris Farrell Hosting, and their employees, contractors, vendors, associates, affiliates, and business partners from any claims resulting from the use of our hosting service.

12) Types of sites specifically banned include, but are not limited to, autosurf, ptc, pts, and ppc sites, bank debentures and bank debenture trading programs, banner ad services (commercial banner ad rotation), brute force programs/scripts/applications, commercial audio streaming, escrow and bank debentures, file dump and mirror scripts, forums and/or websites that distribute or link to warez, keygens, etc., pirated, and/or illegal content, fraudulent sites, hacker oriented sites, archives, and programs, hateful, racist, harassment, or violence oriented sites, high-yield interest programs (hyip) or related sites, image hosting scripts and services, investment sites of an MLM or tiered nature, ip scanners, irc scripts, bots, and servers, lottery sites, mail bomb and spam scripts, mailer pro, muds, rpgs, and pbbgs, pirated software and warez sites, prime banks programs, proxy scripts and anonymizers, sale or promotion of controlled substances, sites promoting illegal activities, and topsites.

13) Chris Farrell Hosting may disclose any member information to law enforcement agencies without further consent or notification to the member upon lawful request from such agencies. Chris Farrell Hosting cooperates fully with law enforcement agencies.

14) We encourage all members to create or purchase unique, original, quality content for use on their sites. We take copyright protection very seriously, and will fully investigate all DMCA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act ) complaints we receive. Those accused of DMCA violations will have an opportunity to present their side of the complaint to Chris Farrell Hosting. Members that we deem in violation will have a reasonable opportunity to remove the claimed offending content. Second time DMCA offenders may have all of their hosting accounts here suspended, then closed permanently, after a 7 day period to allow for a backup of all website files. This action will be at the sole discretion of Chris Farrell Hosting. Copyright infringement includes, but isn't limited to, unauthorized copying of copyrighted intellectual property including art, written works, and audio or visual works. We do not allow sites that promote counterfeit merchandise, nor links to such sites.

15) We reserve the right to inspect and monitor any and all websites hosted with us to ensure compliance with our terms of service and acceptable use policies, to inspect for proper security precautions, to help with monitoring server and network operations, and for other lawful purposes. During our inspections and monitoring, some or all data on websites hosted here may be recorded or copied as needed. Your use of Chris Farrell Hosting services indicates your consent to such monitoring. We reserve the right to require changes to any web site, database, script, or other website component that does not comply with our terms and policies. We also reserve the right to make any such website changes and modifications in an emergency at our sole discretion.

16) Abuse of Chris Farrell Hosting team members will not be tolerated, whether by email, support ticket, or in the membership forum. Such activity could result in suspension or termination of your hosting accounts, or possibly denial of all future hosting account requests.

17) Chris Farrell Hosting shall not be responsible for damages your business may suffer. We make no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied, for the hosting service and related services we provide. Chris Farrell Hosting disclaims any warranty or merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This includes loss of data resulting from delays, no deliveries, wrong delivery, and any and all service interruptions caused by Chris Farrell Hosting and its employees, contractors, vendors, and agents.

18) Users may not store credit card numbers, social security numbers, or other sensitive financial and personal data on their websites hosted here, whether in a database or not, and whether collected through a secure form or not. Those members who use their own payment processing and delivery systems installed on their websites in particular need to be very careful with this.

19) We have zero tolerance towards sending of unsolicited e-mail, bulk emailing, and any other activity perceived as spam. So-called safe lists and purchased lists are considered spam. Any hosting service user who emails spam will have their hosting accounts suspended or terminated without notice. You may also not host sites on our server that have been advertised using spam techniques. For the protection of all our members, any hosting account activity which results in our IP addresses being blacklisted will be suspended or terminated wihtout notice.

20) It is the account holder's responsibility to be sure that any scripts and programs installed to your website(s) are secure, that permissions are set properly and at the minimum level needed to run, and that your scripts and programs don't consume excessive server or network resources. Please safeguard all of your user names and passwords, make your passwords difficult to guess, and change your passwords often. These are very basic security measures that you need to follow. You, as the account holder, are ultimately responsible for any processes, security issues, or resource issues generated by or from your hosting account(s).

21) Your hosting is provided by Chris Farrell Hosting. This is a separate company that I have created purely to offer free hosting here. A few have asked if this has anything to do with Hostgator. No - the hosting here has nothing to do with Hostgator. I have purchased a dedicated server provided by one of the highest rated hosting companies called Servint (http://www.servint.net) Immediate support is from the team here at Chris Farrell Membership - but we are backed up by 247 by Servint. That means they have Full redundancy, Hot-swap drives for zero downtime during drive failure. All the stuff behind the scenes to ensure quality, uninterupted hosting. If you needed your own dedicated server in the future then that would not be included with the free hosting. For a dedicated server you'd be better off to find someone who specializes in this (like Servint for example). Unlimited hosting means an unlimited number of accounts - there's no artificial limit to the number of hosting accounts you can request. But like all hosts, we have to ask that everyone hosting here respect the terms of service, which covers resource, server performance, and disallowed website limitations. In the extremely unlikely event that something were to happen to me and Jeff the web guy and the other people part of the team here - there are other server admins / webmaster who would step in to ensure the hosting continues uninterrupted.

22) Unlimited hosting means that you can request an unlimited number of hosting accounts. It does not mean that you can use these hosting accounts to back up/save files or store unnecessary large data files. Please see below for further clarification on this.

23) Hosting accounts aren't intended for personal file storage (such as personal MP3 and JPG files), PC backup files, etc. Please do not use your hosting accounts for this purpose, or they will be subject to suspension until the problem is corrected. If a video or MP3 file is part of your product or marketing efforts, then it is certainly fine to host here. We do ask that if you have a considerable number of video files, and/or if you experience significant amounts of traffic watching your videos constantly, that you host those elsewhere - we recommend Amazon's S3 service which is designed specifically for that purpose. As with software applications, we can't allow any single user to constantly negatively affect server performance, security, or stability.

24) Chris Farrell Membership reserves the right to decline hosting. This may be due to the subject matter of the website - or due to the fact that on the very rare occasion a request for unreasonable hosting is made (ie websites that are over 1GB). The full unlimited hosting on this site is aimed at marketers with web pages and blogs, not extensive websites with complex databases and applications. Each hosting request is individually reviewed - over 99% of hosting requests are granted.

These terms of service and acceptable use policies are subject to change from time to time, so please be sure to review them regularly - ideally, every time you request a new hosting account to be set up at Chris Farrell Hosting. Your continued use of our hosting service indicates your acceptance of all new and changed terms of service and acceptable use policies, along with those previously published and unchanged.

If you have any questions or concerns about these policies, please submit them in a ticket at http://www.chrisfarrellhosting.com/ in the "Everything Else" category. If you believe any sites we are hosting violate any laws or any of these terms and policies, please contact us at the same location.

Current Acceptable Use Policy and Terms of Service Effective Date January 20th, 2010