Acceptable Use Policy

Acceptable Use Policy


Firevps employ an Acceptable Usage Policy to maintain the performance and integrity of our computer equipment. Breach of our Acceptable Usage Policy may result in account suspension or termination without refund.

1. General List of Violation of AUP

  • + Child Pornography – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Pornography Involving a Person Under Legal Age
  • + Copyright Infringement – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Copyright Infringed Materials
  • + CPU/Memory/Resource Abuse – Consuming Excessive Amount of Server Resources Causing Server Performance Issues
  • + DoS Source – Source of Denial of Service Attack
  • + DoS Target – Target of Denial of Service Attack
  • + Forgery – Faking an IP Address, Hostname, E-Mail Address, or Header
  • + Fraud Site – Hosting or Linking to a Website Intended to Deceive the Public
  • + HYIP – Hosting or Linking to a High Yield Investment Program Website
  • + Identity Theft – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Stolen Account Identification Information
  • + Infection – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Exploits, Trojans, Viruses, or Worms
  • + IRC – Hosting Internet Relay Chat Server not authorized by FireVPS Host
  • + IRC – Hosting Internet Relay Chat Server not authorized by FireVPS Host
  • + Mass Storage – Storing Mass Amounts of Backups, Archives, Videos, etc.
  • + Phishing – Identity Theft by Email Under False Pretense
  • + Bulk Email – No more than 500 emails of similar content (Opt In)
  • + Spam Email – Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE) or Unsolicited Bulk Email (UBE)
  • + Spam List – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Email Address Lists for Spam
  • + Spam Site – A Site Advertised by Spam Email or Spam Web
  • + Spam Ware – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Software Designed for Spamming
  • + Spam Web – Unsolicited, Bulk, or Forged Site Advertisement in Web Logs, Forums, or Guestbooks
  • + Spamhaus/RBL – Spam Causing Blacklisting of an IP at www.spamhaus.org/RBL for Malicious Activity
  • + Terrorist Site – Hosting or Linking to a Site Advocating Terrorism
  • + Toolz – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Tools or Instructional Material on Hacking/Cracking or Other Illegal Activity Trademark – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Trademark Infringed Materials
  • + Warez – Hosting, Distributing, or Linking to Crackz, Hackz, KeyGenz, Serialz, or Pirated Software
  • + Any other material FireVPS Host judges to be threatening or obscene.

 

2. Virtual Private Server (VPS) and Dedicated Server Customers Only
Virtual Private Server (VPS) and Dedicated Server Customers Only The provisions of this section also apply to all customers with Dedicated and VPS accounts: You are solely responsible for any breaches of security affecting the servers under your control. If your server is involved in an attack on another server or system, it will be shut down and an immediate investigation will be launched to determine the cause/source of the attack. In such an event, you shall be responsible for the cost to rectify any damage done to your server and any other requirement affected by the security breach. You may not engage in activities designed to monitor Internet traffic other than your own. This means, that you may not monitor our Internet traffic, nor the Internet traffic of any other entity.

DMCA Copyright Infringement Information
DMCA Copyright Infringement Information In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have adopted a policy to suspend or terminate the accounts of website owners found to be in violation of copyright. We respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask you to do the same. We may, in appropriate circumstances and at our discretion, disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may be repeat infringers. If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide our Copyright Agent (identified below) the following information:

  • + An electronic or physical signature of the person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of the copyright or other intellectual property interest;
  • + A description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed;
  • + A description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site;
  • + Your address, telephone number, and email address;
  • + A statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
  • + A statement by you, made under penalty of perjury, that the above information in your Notice is accurate and that you are the copyright or intellectual property owner or authorized to act on the copyright or intellectual property owner’s behalf.