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CGI Abuse Policy
AAA-Webhost 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
AAA-Webhost
has created its CGI Abuse policy for its virtual server users.
What does AAA-Webhost
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. AAA-Webhost is the sole determinant of what
consititues degraded server performance.
Due to their use of flat
files instead of databases, AAA-Webhost 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. AAA-Webhost suggests
using VBulletin or phpBB as a more efficient, database-driven
alternative to these bulletin boards.
Why does AAA-Webhost
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, AAA-Webhost 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 AAA-Webhost. 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 CGI scripts will be disabled.
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