This ZeoHost.com Terms Of Service agreement (hereafter referred to as the "TOS") lays down the terms and conditions by which ZeoHost.com Hosting Services (hereafter referred to as the "Services") will be provided to you upon registration. The TOS also describes prohibited uses of the Services. This TOS is not exhaustive and ZeoHost.com reserves the right to modify it from time to time, effective when notification is posted at zeohost.com. No verbal or written agreement/statement by any ZeoHost.com employee or at ZeoHost.com website will take precedence over the TOS.

On registering for and using the Services, you the Customer agree to all the terms and conditions of the TOS, as modified from time to time, in its entirety. Violation of the TOS or any such action that ZeoHost.com deems inappropriate may result in the termination or suspension of the Services for the Customer.

General Abuse

Any attempt to cause harm or undermine ZeoHost.com servers, computers, network or customers is prohibited. Use of the Services to carry out any activity that is illegal under US and International laws is also prohibited.

Prohibited uses of the Services also include, but are not restricted to:
1. Use of IRC, bots or clients
2. Unsolicited Bulk Emailing
3. Newsgroup spamming
4. Illegal Content
5. Copyright infringement
6. Trademark infringement
7. Hosting and linking to pirated computer software and music.
8. Hosting/linking to software or information (such as software cracks, software cracking tutorials and software serial numbers) that may help any individual to obtain copyrighted software or music illegally.
9. Hosting or linking to computer software that may be used for spamming (know as spamware)
10. Providing/Promoting material that is grossly offensive to Internet Users which includes blatant expressions of bigotry, racism or hatred
11. Providing/Promoting material about illegal activities or promoting physical injury or harm against any group or individual
12. Providing/Promoting material about exploitation of children under the age of 18
13. Sale of any controlled substance without prior proof of appropriate permit(s)

Email Abuse

ZeoHost.com maintains a ZERO tolerance policy in regards to SPAM.

The following activities are considered as email abuse and are prohibited
1. Unsolicited bulk emailing. This includes, but not limited to commercial advertising, informational announcements, charity requests, petitions for signatures, and political or religious tracts. Such emails may only be sent in if the receiver explicitly requested such information directly from you.
2. Stealth Emailing. This includes forging, altering or removing email headers
3. Mail Bombing. This includes sending a large number of emails to disrupt or compromise a servers, systems or network
4. Emailing that may harass or intimidate others. This includes harassment or intimidation through frequency of emails, size of emails and the language of emails. If the recipient asks to stop, you must discontinue sending any further emails
5. Newsgroup Spamming. This includes unwelcome commercial advertising and posting that may be against the rules of a Usenet discussion group or mailing list.

Such activities carried out from servers/systems not managed by ZeoHost.com are ALSO prohibited if they link to websites, content or material hosted on ZeoHost.com servers/systems.

Email abuse is also grounds for immediate suspension of your Service Account and an appropriate legal action.

Inodes (files)

The use of more than 50,000 inodes (files) on any shared account may potentially result in suspension. Every file (a webpage, image file, email, etc) on your account uses up 1 inode.

Server Abuse

Server abuse includes any process or service usage that affects normal server/system operation, resources or connectivity, and which causes a server/system to become overloaded. Such abuse includes, but is not limited to, excessive CPU, hard disk and memory usage, excessive number of concurrent processes, excessive number of concurrent port or database connections and excessive bandwidth usage. Possible causes for server abuse include, but are not limited to, the excessive use of: CGI, Perl, Sendmail, mySQL, PHP, HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP. Upon detection of server abuse, ZeoHost.com will try to disable the specific script, website or database that is causing the abuse under your Service Account. If this is not possible, ZeoHost.com will suspend your entire Service Account. The specific script, website or database under the Service Account or the Service account itself will only be resumed once the Customer has corrected the problem and convinced ZeoHost.com that the abuse will not occur again. ZeoHost.com will endeavor to provide prior notification before carrying out any such action but ZeoHost.com may do so without any such notification, in its own discretion.

Examples of unacceptable material
on all Shared and Dedicated Servers include but not limited:
IRC Bots, Proxy Scripts / Anonymizers, Pirated Software / Warez, Spyware / Trojans / Keyloggers / Hijackers etc., commercial audio streaming (more than one or two streams), locally hosted chat scripts, Escrow, High-Yield Investment 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 Debenture Trading Programs, lottery sites, muds / rpg's, hacker focused sites/archives/programs, or sites promoting illegal activities, IP Scanners, Mail Bombers and Spam Scripts, Scam / Fake / Fishing sites.

Any account found to be in violation of this provision will be immediately suspended and/or deactivated and no refund will be issued.