Naturally, there are restrictions on what you can do with your webspace. If you have problems with these restrictions, you can always purchase your own webspace or find another free provider. If you have questions that aren’t covered below, please feel free to email me (address on this page) and ask. I won’t bite. Much.
If you are thinking about purchasing your own webspace and use Dreamhost, please consider using the TELO2 code, which will give you $50 off a 1 or 2-year hosting plan, plus a free domain name registration.
…or, rather, What You Do Not. There is no Try.
1. Do not install a BitTorrent tracker - Dreamhost doesn’t allow them.
2. Do not distribute TV episodes, anime, movies, mp3s, etc. Dreamhost deletes them when they’re detected, and may take down my account, which means you’ve just nuked the websites of several other people as well. If that happens, I’m deleting your account. With extreme prejudice.
3. Take security seriously. This means: do not run unsecure scripts. If you don’t know if a script is secure, then you don’t know enough about it to be running it.
Also, if you install anything on the webspace, you are responsible for keeping it up-to-date with upgrades and security patches. If I look at your website and see that software you’ve installed is not up to date, I’ll email you and remind you to upgrade. If you don’t respond or upgrade within a few days, I’ll throttle your account - remove it from the Web - until you do.
If I log into the panel and see that you haven’t attended to any One-Click Installs with upgrades available in a few days, then I’ll click the button and upgrade them myself. Which means that if something goes wrong with the upgrade, you don’t have a backup. Best to do it yourself first.
4. Be responsible for your own backups. Dreamhost doesn’t back your files up, and neither do I. If your site gets hosed and you don’t have a backup, even if I caused the hosing, I’ll give you sympathy but not much else. :) You’re getting exactly what you pay for.
5. If someone contacts me and complains that you’ve uploaded art, text, or files that you don’t have permission to, I may throttle your account until the situation is sorted out. If I find that you’re taking art from other sites like DeviantArt or personal webpages and uploading them without permission, I may delete your account.
Note that I do not count scanning and cleaning up an image as owning the copyright to it. It’s merely bad manners, not a violation of copyright, to steal scans from sites that ask you not to (the copyright violation is on the part of the scanner).
6. If you have a problem, I’ll try to help you, but if I don’t have time or can’t answer your question, don’t complain. Remember, you’re getting this account for free, so what you’re getting is worth exactly what you’re paying for it.
