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Invision Power's Hosting Tos - A little funny

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Invision Power's Hosting Tos - A little funny

michaelper22
Please move this topic, I made it in the wrong section.
I was browsing around the IPS site for fun today (http;//www.invisionpower.com/, and I happened to land on their Hositng Policies. Among the things in there are an explanation of the Intenet community, spam, bandwidth usage, etc. But on thing that gave me a little kick out of it was which applications you maay not use on their hosting servers.
first let's look at the guidelines for which scripts you may use:
QUOTE

Program/Script Usage
You may upload and utilize a CGI, PHP or Perl based program/script provided the following conditions are met:


The script must be fully tested on a non-IPS Hosting shared server prior to uploading it to your account and you must have the knowledge required to install and operate the script. IPS Hosting servers are not to be used for development testing.

The script may not interact with any server configuration or hardware. Users running scripts that interact with any server configuration or any hardware will be subject to immediate cancellation of the user account without refund.

The script must be executed in a timely fashion. Any script that utilizes the processor for an excessive amount of time, as determined solely by an IPS Hosting system administrator, is subject to removal.

The script must otherwise conform to all other IPS Hosting policies, including but not limited to the SPAM and resource usage policies.

That's a little amusing, but wait till you see what's coming up.
You aren't allowed to use any background processes, persistant or remote MySQL connections (go figure), and these scripts (this is the funny part):
QUOTE

Forbidden Scripts
The following scripts are prohibited from being operated on any IPS Hosting shared server:
- Matt Wrights Formmail Clone or any derivative thereof. (Exploit allows mass SPAM capabilities)
- Any CGI/Perl based forum discussion product (Includes: UBB, YaBB, Ikonboard Resource Intensive.)
- Hivemail any version below 1.3 (Resource Intensive)
- vBulletin 3.0x and above (Resource Intensive)
- VirtuaNews (Resource Intensive)
- Unreal Portal - any version (Resource Intensive)
- PHPNuke - any version
- phpBB - any version (Excessive number of exploits)

Read the whole thing at http://www.invisionpower.com/ip.dynamic/ho...g/policies.html.
(I always knew IPB had its advantages, but it's starting to look like IPS wants to eliminate competition, ie. with disallowing vBulletin.)
Some of these scripts I can understand the reason for not allowing them. But others are just funny to read about. What about PHP Nuke, which they don't giva any reasons for disallowing? You know how many sites on Trap17 probably run PHP Nuke?

I hope OpaQue reads this, and doesn't take any action about it, because this is just good stuff.

 

 

 


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Mr. T
That would not matter to him I am sure he knows all that is out there incase something were to happen he knows how to get out of something. But he is a smart guy so if he didn't have this site then he wouldn't know what he is doing.
As far as policies from other sites on hosting if they had any problems I am sure someone would have had a talk regarding the situation.

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serverph
well, it's a policy they can impose since they primarily intend their hosting service for their products anyway. tongue.gif besides, it pertains to abuse of system resources (which from their viewpoint is "excessive" exploits or resource intensiveness of the scripts they listed).

i'm sure any hosting company (including the XISTO group, of which trap17 is part of) can readily identify which hosted sites on their servers pose problems to the system. and they can readily cut-off the service on that particular site if need be. it's just that IPS hosting has a clear-cut view of what to and what not to allow on their system basing on their policies. it's their prerogative in the first place.

how would it relate to trap17 and opaque? let's just say that i believe opaque and trap17 wants to be "more inclusive" of even those scripts "forbidden" by IPS -- as long as measures are done to avoid abuse of system resources (that's the reason for upgrades oftentimes), and members do not exploit and abuse the gracious service we are getting. smile.gif

 

 

 


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NightRider
QUOTE(michaelper22 @ Jun 15 2006, 08:37 PM) *

Please move this topic, I made it in the wrong section.
I was browsing around the IPS site for fun today (http;//www.invisionpower.com/, and I happened to land on their Hositng Policies. Among the things in there are an explanation of the Intenet community, spam, bandwidth usage, etc. But on thing that gave me a little kick out of it was which applications you maay not use on their hosting servers.
first let's look at the guidelines for which scripts you may use:

That's a little amusing, but wait till you see what's coming up.
You aren't allowed to use any background processes, persistant or remote MySQL connections (go figure), and these scripts (this is the funny part):

Read the whole thing at http://www.invisionpower.com/ip.dynamic/ho...g/policies.html.
(I always knew IPB had its advantages, but it's starting to look like IPS wants to eliminate competition, ie. with disallowing vBulletin.)
Some of these scripts I can understand the reason for not allowing them. But others are just funny to read about. What about PHP Nuke, which they don't giva any reasons for disallowing? You know how many sites on Trap17 probably run PHP Nuke?

I hope OpaQue reads this, and doesn't take any action about it, because this is just good stuff.


Well, they can't allow everything tongue.gif tongue.gif tongue.gif

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Saint_Michael
michaelper22 from looking over it, it's their hosting policy, and since all of the xisto sites are not hosted through IPB hosting it does not affect OpaQue in any way.

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