Subdomain Policy Clarification

[iowamf]

If a TLD, ie, 'ourleague.org' is on your site via a reseller account - I see that 'team1.ourleague.org' & 'team2.ourleague.org' could be valid subdomains.

 

However, what if some fees were charged to each team in "ourleague.org" ?

ie, an initial set-up free or any fees for excessive disk/bw usage.

 

Would this violate the subdomain policy about charging for subdomains - even though the subdomains are highly relevant in content to the TLD and highly relevant with respect to bandwidth/usage fees charged to the TLD?

 

Assuming this is valid - could you see any obvious 'gotchas' where "Team_N" might violate the subdomain policy so the "ourleague.org" administrator can ban those in advance?

[TCH-Rob]

It would be against policy for you to charge anything for subdomains including a setup fee or for going over bandwidth etc.

[TCH-Andy]

via a reseller account

 

If this is on a reseller account, then it would be acceptable.

 

As Rob says - if it's on a standard (none reseller) account, then it would be against the AUP.

[TCH-Rob]

I am sorry, I missed the part about you being on a reseller account. You can do it as Andy said on a reseller account. I apologize for any confusion.

[iowamf]

Thanks for the clarification:

 

If this is on a reseller account, then it would be acceptable.

 

As Rob says - if it's on a standard (none reseller) account, then it would be against the AUP.

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You can see in my example how it is one logical site with a simple pay-go usage agreement - the group isn't 'reselling' anything - they are just dividing up a common bill like a group might do who goes out to lunch.

 

The distinction seems to make cents for TCH - but no sense to me. ;-)

 

I guess we do the same thing with an individual account and folders instead of a reseller account and subdomains.

 

[TCH-Rob]

Maybe I am misunderstanding. You have a reseller account right? You want to set up subdomains on that account right? You want to charge a setup fee for those accounts right?

 

If I am understanding that then you are allowed to do that with any of the reseller accounts. It will not be against our AUP.

 

I did not read your question right the first time and thought you were on a standard shared hosting account. On those accounts one cannot charge anything for services they might provide.

 

Again, if you have a reseller account then you can charge whatever you want for any services you provide.

[iowamf]

Let's start over with another example as well defined as (I think) is possible:

 

A family has a ourfamily.org domain and a TCH SHARED ACCOUNT PLATINUM PLAN (55GB BW & 2000MB diskspace for $26.95/mo).

 

1.) The family implements dad.ourfamily.org and mom.ourfamily.org subdomains and TCH gets paid $26.95/mo. - this is OK per TCH subdomain policy for this type of account.

 

2.) Two months later, the famly adds son.ourfamily.org and daughter.ourfamily.org and officially "charges" son & daughter 1/4 of the bill each - this is technically against TCH subdomain policy for this type of account.

 

3.) Four months later, "son.ourfamily.org" exceeds the PLATINUM PLAN by 100MB of disk space and 1GB of bandwidth for one month and the family officially "charges" the son $1.75 + $2.50 for that months excessive usage - this is technically against TCH subdomain policy for this type of account.

 

Am I technically correct on TCH subdomain policies for all three cases above?

[TCH-Don]

Yes

for a shared hosting account

you may not charge for sub-domains.

[Deverill]

Remember that we don't have people that go around policing sites checking for abuses. If it were a family we'd probably never know about it. If, however, you have 30 diverse subdomains or advertise here in the forums we'll probably find out and shut you down.

 

The difference is that on a reseller account we plan for there to be many domains and allocate resources accordingly (namely put fewer accounts on those servers). If that was allowed on all servers we would have less-than-great service and the boss isn't willing to do that.