On a shared server environment, we must limit the use of scripts and programs are known to cause a slow down in services, commonly known as "server hogs", in order to maintain a high level of service to the other clients on the server.

The banned scripts have a high risk of causing a breach in our Terms of Service Agreement, Section 5.6., which will result in having your scripts or programs disabled, or your virtual hosting account suspended or possibly terminated.

If your website requires the use of the scripts or programs we have listed above, we recommend a semi-dedicated or dedicated solution. This will ensure the highest quality environment available to support your resource intensive website.

CGI Chat Room Scripts and Programs:

Banned:
• ALL CGI Chat scripts and programs hosted / run from our servers.

Recommended Alternative(s):
• You are allowed to have any chat room on your website that is hosted on a seperate network. We recommend raiderSoft, they provide free chat room services to thousands of webmasters on the Internet.

Bulletin Board Systems/Forums:

Banned:
• UBB - Ultimate Bulletin Board Provided by Infopop Corporation.
• YABB - Yet Another Bulletin Board Provided by Xnull Network.
• IkonBoard

Recommended Alternative(s):
• phpBB2 - Provided by phpBB.com
• vBulletin - Provided by Jelsoft
Please note that even with approved script, a bulletin board/forum that is extremely busy may still cause undesired loads on the servers. If you start seeing a rapid growth in your forums after having installed, please contact use and we will assist you into looking for alternative options for your website.

FormMail / contact Scripts:

Banned:
• FormMail.pl from Matt's Archive Scripts.

Recommended Alternative(s):
• NMS FormMail

Content Management Systems (CMS):

Banned:
• http://www.xoops.org/modules/news/

Recommended Alternative:
• to be listed

Please understand that we are not judging the quality of these banned scripts and programs, but making a decision based on monitoring the server load while these items are in operation. It has been observed that these programs load the servers in a way that is unfair to other shared hosting customers.

We hope you understand and would like to thank you for adhering to these guidelines.