The use of services from 101 Connect, LLC operating under the name A1WebServer.com and A1WebServer (hereinafter referred to as A1WebServer) constitutes agreement to these terms. Changes in TOS are governed by paragraph 17.
1.) Account Setup / Email on file
We will setup your account after we have received payment and we and/or our payment partner(s) have screened the order(s) in case of fraud. It is your responsibility to provide us with an email address which is not @ the domain(s) you are signing up under. If there is ever an abuse issue or we need to contact you, the primary email address on file will be used for this purpose. It is your responsibility to ensure the email address on file is current or up to date at all times. Providing false contact information of any kind may result in the termination of your account. In dedicated server purchases or high risk transactions, it will be necessary to provide government issued identification and possibly a scan of the credit card used for the purchase. If you fail to meet these requirements, the order may be considered fraudulent in nature and be denied.
Transfers
Our transfer team will make every effort to help you move your site to us, however, we cannot make guarantees regarding the transfer process. We provide this as a courtesy service and cannot make guarantees regarding its availability or the amount of time it may take as each host is configured a little differently. We will try our best; however, in some cases we may be unable to assist you in a transfer of data from an old host.
2.) Content
All services provided by A1WebServer may only be used for lawful purposes. The laws of the State of Iowa, and the United States of America apply.
The customer agrees to indemnify and hold harmless A1WebServer from any claims resulting from the use of our services.
Use of our services to infringe upon any copyright or trademark is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to unauthorized copying of music, books, photographs, or any other copyrighted work. The offer for sale of any counterfeit merchandise of a trademark holder will result in the immediate termination of your account. If you believe that your copyright or trademark is being infringed upon, please email support@A1WebServer.com the information required. A list of required information includes the item being infringed upon, a statement of ownership, proof of trademark or copyright, where and when the item appeared, and complete contact information. If the request is of a licensing issue, we may require further documentation.
Examples of unacceptable material on all Shared and Reseller servers include:
IRC Bots, Proxy Scripts / Anonymizers, Pirated Software / Warez, image, filedump, mirror, or banner-ad services (similar to rapidshare, photobucket, or commercial banner ad rotation), topsites, commercial audio streaming (more than one or two streams), Escrow, High-Yield Interest Programs (HYIP) or related sites, Investment sites (FOREX, egold exchange),?sale of any controlled substance without prior proof of appropriate permit(s), AutoSurf sites, Bank Debentures, Bank Debenture Trading Programs, Prime Banks Programs, lottery sites, muds / rpg’s, hate sites, hacker focused sites/archives/programs, or sites promoting illegal activities, IP Scanners, Brute Force Programs, Mail Bombers and Spam Scripts, pornography, legal violations, gambling sites. Forums and or websites that distribute or link to warez content are prohibited.
Examples of unacceptable material on dedicated servers include:
Pirated Software / Warez, Escrow, High-Yield Interest Programs (HYIP) or related sites, Investment sites (FOREX, egold exchange),?sale of any controlled substance without prior proof of appropriate permit(s), AutoSurf sites, Bank Debentures, Bank Debenture Trading Programs, Prime Banks Programs, lottery sites, hate sites, hacker focused sites/archives/programs, or sites promoting illegal activities, IP Scanners, Brute Force Programs, Mail Bombers and Spam Scripts. Forums and or websites that distribute or link to warez content are prohibited.
We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. Any material that, in our judgment, is obscene or threatening is prohibited and will be removed from our servers with or without notice.
Failure to respond to email from our abuse department within 48 hours may result in the suspension or termination of your services. All abuse issues must be dealt with via helpdesk/email and will have a response within 48 hours.
If in doubt regarding the acceptability of your site or service, please contact us at support@a1webserver.com and we will be happy to assist you.
Potential harm to minors is strictly forbidden, including but not limited to child pornography or content perceived to be child pornography (Lolita):
Any site found to host child pornography or linking to child pornography will be suspended immediately without notice.
Resellers: we will suspend the site in question and will notify you so you may terminate the account. We will further monitor your activity; more than one infraction of this type may result in the immediate termination of your account.
Direct customers: Your services will be terminated with or without notice.
Violations will be reported to the appropriate law enforcement agency.
It is your responsibility to ensure that scripts/programs installed under your account are secure and permissions of directories are set properly, regardless of installation method. When at all possible, set permissions on most directories to 755 or as restrictive as possible. Users are ultimately responsible for all actions taken under their account. This includes the compromise of credentials such as username and password. It is required that you use a secure password. If a weak password is used, your account may be suspended until you agree to use a more secure password. Audits may be done to prevent weak passwords from being used. If an audit is performed, and your password is found to be weak, we will notify you and allow time for you to change/update your password.
3.) Zero Tolerance Spam Policy
We take a zero tolerance stance against sending of unsolicited e-mail, bulk emailing, and spam. “Safe lists” and “double opt-in” will be treated as spam. Any user who sends out spam will have their account terminated with or without notice.
Sites advertised via SPAM (Spamvertised) may not be hosted on our servers. This provision includes, but is not limited to SPAM sent via fax, email, instant messaging, or usenet/newsgroups. No organization or entity listed in the ROKSO may be hosted on our servers. Any account which results in our IP space being blacklisted will be immediately suspended and/or terminated.
A1WebServer reserves the right to require changes or disable as necessary any web site, account, database, or other component that does not comply with its established policies, or to make any such modifications in an emergency at its sole discretion.
A1WebServer reserves the right to charge the holder of the account used to send any unsolicited e-mail a clean up fee. This cost of the clean up fee is entirely at the discretion of A1WebServer.
4.) Payment Information
You agree to supply appropriate payment for the services received from A1WebServer, in advance of the time period during which such services are provided. You agree that until and unless you notify A1WebServer of your desire to cancel any or all services received, those services will be billed on a recurring basis.
Cancellations must be done in writing via the cancellation form found on the website A1WebServer.com. Once we receive your cancellation and have confirmed all necessary information with you via e-mail, we will inform you that your account has been canceled. At this time, your account with us has been canceled. If you do not hear back from us or receive an e-mail confirming this cancellation, please contact us immediately.
As a client of A1WebServer, it is your responsibility to ensure that your payment information is up to date, and that all invoices are paid on time. A1WebServer provides a 15 day grace period from the time the invoice is due and when it must be paid. Any invoice that is overdue for 10 days and not paid will result in a $10 late fee and/or an account suspension until account balance has been paid in full. Restoration of service charge is $20.00.
Invoices that have been paid more than once with multiple PayPal Subscriptions can only be added as credit towards the account and cannot be refunded via PayPal. If you require assistance with this provision, please contact billing@a1webserver.com.
A1WebServer reserves the right to change the monthly payment amount and any other charges at anytime.
5.) Backups and Data Loss
Your use of the service is at your sole risk. A1WebServer is not responsible for files and/or data residing on your account. You agree to take full responsibility for files and data transferred and to maintain all appropriate backup of files and data stored on A1WebServer servers.
6.) Cancellations and Refunds
A1WebServer reserves the right to cancel the account at any time with or without notice.
Any abuse of our staff in any medium or format will result in the suspension or termination of your services.
Customers may cancel at any time via a Cancellation Form. A1WebServer ceases future billing upon submission of the Cancellation Form. There is no refund for accounts that have been prepaid. However, in the event of a billing error, refunds are available. Notice of a billing error must be emailed to billing@a1webserver.com. A1Webserver will refund overpayments or billing errors for the period of 60 days prior to receipt of the notice. The 60 day refund is the sole remedy for billing errors. It is the customer’s duty to review all charges and to notify A1Webserver on a prompt and timely basis of any errors or mistakes in billing so as to provide A1Webserver time to remedy the error or mistake. There are no refunds on dedicated servers, administrative fees, install fees for custom software, or domain name purchases, web design work or for billing errors more than 60 days old.
Violations of the Terms of Service will waive the refund policy.
7a.) Resource Usage
User may not:
a) Use 25% or more of system resources for longer than 90 seconds. There are numerous activities that could cause such problems; these include: CGI scripts, FTP, PHP, HTTP, etc.
b) Run stand-alone, unattended server-side processes at any point in time on the server. This includes any and all daemons, such as IRCD.
c) Run any type of web spider or indexer (including Google Cash / AdSpy) on shared servers.
d) Run any software that interfaces with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) network.
e) Run any bit torrent application, tracker, or client. Please note that you may link to torrents off server, but may not host or store them.
f) Participate in any file-sharing/peer-to-peer activities
g) Run any gaming servers such as counter-strike, half-life, battlefield1942, 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 than 50,000 inodes on any shared account may potentially result in suspension. Accounts found to be exceeding the 50,000 inode limit will automatically be removed from our backup system to avoid overusage. Every file on your account uses up 1 inode.
Simply exceeding the limit does not constitute grounds for suspension however accounts that constantly create and delete large numbers of files on a regular basis or causing file system damage may cause your account to be flagged for review.
8.) Bandwidth Usage
You are allocated a monthly bandwidth allowance. This allowance varies depending on the hosting package you purchase. Should your account pass the allocated amount we reserve the right to suspend the account until the start of the next allocation, suspend the account until more bandwidth is purchased at an additional fee, suspend the account until you upgrade to a higher level of package, terminate the account and/or charge you an additional fee for the overages. Unused transfer in one month cannot be carried over to the next month.
9a.) Uptime Guarantee
If your shared / reseller server has a physical downtime that is not within the 99% uptime you may receive one month of credit on your account. Approval of the credit is at the discretion of A1WebServer dependent upon justification provided. Third party monitoring service reports may not be used for justification due to a variety of factors including the monitor’s network capacity/transit availability. The uptime of the server is defined as the reported uptime from the operating system and the Apache Web Server which may differ from the uptime reported by other individual services. To request a credit, please contact billing@a1webserver.com with justification. All requests must be made in writing via email. Uptime guarantees only apply to shared / reseller solutions. Dedicated servers are covered by a network guarantee in which the credit is prorated for the amount of time the server is down which is not related to our uptime guarantee.
10.) Reseller: Client Responsibility
Resellers are responsible for supporting their clients. A1WebServer does not provide support to our Reseller’s Clients. If a reseller’s client contacts us, we reserve the right to place the client account on hold until the reseller can assume their responsibility for their client. All support requests must be made by the reseller on their clients’ behalf for security purposes. Resellers are also responsible for all content stored or transmitted under their reseller account and the actions of their clients’. A1WebServer will hold any reseller responsible for any of their client’s actions that violate the law or the terms of service.
11.) Shared (non-reseller accounts) / Semi dedicated Servers
Shared accounts may not resell web hosting to other people; if you wish to resell hosting you must use a reseller account. Semi dedicated servers are not backed up. You must maintain your own backups.
12.) Dedicated Servers
A1WebServer reserves the right to reset the password on a dedicated server if the password on file is not current so that we may do security audits as required by our datacenter. It is the responsibility of the client to ensure that there is a valid email address and current root password on file for their dedicated server on file to prevent downtime from forced password resets. A1WebServer reserves the right to audit servers as needed and to perform administrative actions at the request of our datacenter. Dedicated servers are NOT backed up by us and it is the responsibility of the client to maintain backups or have a solution for this. You may purchase an additional hard drive and maintain backups to it as the simplest solution. Please contact support@a1webserver.com if you wish to obtain a secondary hard drive. It is your responsibility to maintain backups.
13.) Price Change
The amount you pay for hosting will never increase from the date of purchase. We reserve the right to change prices listed on A1WebServer, and the right to increase the amount of resources given to plans at any time.
14a.) Indemnification
Customer agrees that it shall defend, indemnify, save and hold A1Websrever harmless from any and all demands, liabilities, losses, costs and claims, including reasonable attorney’s fees asserted against A1WebServer, its agents, its customers, officers and employees, that may arise or result from any service provided or performed or agreed to be performed or any product sold by customer, its agents, employees or assigns. Customer agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless A1WebServer against liabilities arising out of; (1) any injury to person or property caused by any products sold or otherwise distributed in connection with A1WebServer; (2) any material supplied by customer infringing or allegedly infringing on the proprietary rights of a third party; (3) copyright infringement and (4) any defective products sold to customers from A1WebServer’s server.
14b.) Arbitration
By using any A1WebServer services, you agree to submit to binding arbitration. You hereby give up any right to go to Court. If any disputes or claims or causes of action of any kind based on any theory of law including but not limited to contract, tort, statute, regulation, fraud, misrepresentation, foreign law, state law, federal law arises against A1WebServer, A1WebServer.com, 101 Connect, LLC or any subsidiary or agent of A1Webserver, such disputes or claims or causes of action will be handled by an arbitrator of A1WebServer’s choice. An arbitrator from the American Arbitration Association or the National Arbitration Forum will be selected in the state of Iowa. No arbitration is valid unless filed in Iowa. Iowa law shall apply regardless of the place of residence of the parties. Arbitrators shall be attorneys or retired judges and shall be selected pursuant to the applicable rules. All decisions rendered by the arbitrator will be binding and final. The arbitrator’s award is final and binding on all parties. The Federal Arbitration Act, and not any state arbitration law, governs all arbitration under this Arbitration Clause. You are also responsible for any and all costs related to such arbitration. Should you file a claim in a Court, other than thru arbitration as required, you shall pay all legal fees, costs, expenses and losses suffered by A1WebServer as a result of defending against such claim regardless of outcome.
15.) Disclaimer
A1WebServer shall not be responsible for any damages your business may suffer. A1WebServer makes no warranties of any kind, expressed or implied, for services we provide. A1WebServer disclaims any warranty of 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 A1WebServer and its employees.
16.) Disclosure to law enforcement
A1WebServer may disclose any subscriber information to law enforcement agencies without further consent or notification to the subscriber upon request from such agencies which appear to be lawful to A1WebServer. We will cooperate fully with law enforcement agencies.
17.) Changes to the TOS
A1WebServer reserves the right to revise its policies at any time without notice. Subscriber is responsible to read the TOS and is bound by changes by virtue of continued payments being made to A1WebServer after any applicable changes.