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Question about Virgin

  • 06-04-2016 8:03pm
    #1
    Chaos Marine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭


    I'm looking to host a Maptools server and my housemate's told me that you can't host any kind of server through their connections as it's against their ToS. I can't believe this if it's true.


Comments

  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Yes, the way its worded you're totally prohibited from hosting any kind of a webservice. But in practice as long as you don't try and host the next big video sharing site from home they don't really care.


  • #3
    moc moc a moc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,299 ✭✭✭moc moc a moc


    Every residential ISP has a clause like this in their ToS; I don't see where your difficulty in believing it stems from.


  • #4
    Chaos Marine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭Chaos Marine


    I've hosted servers plenty of times before Virgin. I just find it a surprise that Virgin enforce actually go out of their way to make it impossible.


  • #5
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 23,341 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    Chaos Marine wrote: »
    I've hosted servers plenty of times before Virgin. I just find it a surprise that Virgin enforce actually go out of their way to make it impossible.

    They don't enforce it unless you are taking the piss and that is true for all residential ISP's

    Given how "relatively" low bandwidth the upload is and how cheap Amazon cloud servers are, there is little reason for people to use their home broadband to run serious servers.


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