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CGI
Abuse Policy
Sexy Hosting
allows CGI to be used on all Virtual Servers. CGI can be
resource intensive however, and because a Virtual Server must be
shared with other users, we must limit how much of the CPU can
be used by any one account on a shared server. There are several
reasons why Sexy Hosting has created its CGI Abuse policy for
its virtual server users.
What does Sexy Hosting
consider "CGI ABUSE"?
Any
site whose CGI programs are using excessive amounts of system
resources. Excessive amounts is defined as any amount that
results in substantial degradation of server performance. Sexy Hosting
is the sole determinant of what consititues degraded server
performance.
Due
to their use of flat files instead of databases, Sexy Hosting
does not allow the use of UBB or YABB bulletin boards. Use of
these boards for large or very active forums, results in system
performance degradation, and cannot be allowed in our shared
server environment. Sexy
Hosting suggests using VBulletin or phpBB as a more efficient,
database-driven alternative to these bulletin boards.
Why does Sexy Hosting
have this policy?
Server
Speed and Fairness to others
A
Virtual Server is shared. As such, there are many accounts per
machine. In all fairness, Sexy Hosting cannot allow one or two
clients to use all of the System resources on a shared machine
and have all other clients on the machine suffer because of it.
Excessive CPU usage by one or more clients causes extreme
slowness in all areas: FTP, Telnet, Web Sites and more. If the
CPU usage gets too far out of hand, all sites hosted on the
machine will return Errors and not be accessible in any way.
What
happens if I violate this policy ?
All accounts that are found to using excessive amounts of system
resources will receive an email warning from Sexy Hosting. This
warning will inform you that there is too much CGI running and
it will provide options for reducing the usage or upgrading your
server. If you do not reduce the usage within 24 hours of the
email being sent, your account will be canceled.
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