{"product_id":"2940015205688","title":"Web Hosting Fine Prints Danger Zone","description":"Web Hosting customers often ignore the legal fine prints in their web host's Legal Terms and Conditions as posted on the website. This prevalent disregard to these terms often lead to disasters, misunderstandings and worse lawsuit between the host and their customers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis short exclusive report attempts to enlighten why your indifference to these legal fine prints can lead you to the losing side in case of conflicts or claims. It also point out which areas you need to focus when reading online contracts and what you can do to mitigate the risks involved in these contracts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon't risk your website even for a moment. Know your rights and your options when dealing with these contractual obligations. A \"MUST\" read by all webmasters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003eOver the years, the webhosting business has evolved into a massive worldwide industry. Many people made money early in the race but in the latter days, competition is so fierce that hosting prices are dropping like jaws in awe.\u003cbr\u003eThere are no controls and no regulating body that will curb the quick deterioration of revenues and profits to be made by the so called “webhosts” or webhosting companies. New players come in everyday dropping their prices like crazy just to get a piece of the action. It’s a webmaster’s market nowadays.\u003cbr\u003eThe pricing issue is mainly caused by the reduced server and network costs offered by various datacenters competing for server sales. With more supply than there is demand, it creates highly competitive business landscape to the resellers. Competitors go by price wars and jacked up webhosting features.\u003cbr\u003eThis chronic pricing problem has pushed profit margins to its all time low prompting many webhosts to look closely at their costs. While the chaotic pricing is beyond the webhost’s control, their costs and expenses are theirs to manage.\u003cbr\u003eIn recognizing the need to streamline their costs (in order to make some money), these webhosts now have to pass on certain limitations and responsibilities to their customers. One good example of these is making sure that they only allow certain activities on their server and network (IRC, newsgroups, email blasting, live chats, download sites and other server-intensive activities.)\u003cbr\u003eAnother example is to disallow particular website types from using their servers and their network. These include Mp3 sites, adult sites, spam sites, forums and may other types of sites known to eat up a lot of shared resources. They do this to make sure that their cheap services will not be subject to abuse which may affect even their other existing customers to leave them for poor service.\u003cbr\u003eThese limitations are normally embedded in the legal fine prints. If the innocent webmaster violates them, he is posing a grave threat unintentionally to his website’s existence. The problem is that these lines of text in the contracts are normally ignored or are not taken seriously by these webmasters until problems surfaced. Been like that before until I encountered a huge problem.\u003cbr\u003eAnd when these problems arise, that’s the only time we go back to the terms and conditions of our purchase and to our surprise, we may find out that we have just agreed to something we should have not done so in the first place. And worst of all, these terms has changed that you no longer enjoy the rights and privileges you know you have before.\u003cbr\u003eThen when all these happened, that is the only time you know you are in danger of losing a fight. Only then you realize that you might be in trouble.\u003cbr\u003eHighlights\u003cbr\u003e“The chronic pricing problem has pushed profit margins of web hosts to an all time low...”\u003cbr\u003e“Limitations are normally embedded in the legal fine prints and if the innocent webmaster violates them, he is posing a grave threat to his website’s existence.”\u003cbr\u003e“When problems arise, that’s the only time we go back to the terms and conditions of our purchase…”\u003cbr\u003eI. FIRST OF ALL, WHAT IS A “FINE PRINT”?\u003cbr\u003eDictionaries commonly referred to this as:\u003cbr\u003e1. the part of a contract that contains reservations and qualifications that are often printed in small type\u003cbr\u003eSuch as \"…don't sign a contract without reading the fine print.\"\u003cbr\u003e2. small print in a contract – the literal meaning of the phrase.\u003cbr\u003eSuch as “…bring me my glasses so I can read the fine print.”\u003cbr\u003eWikiPedia has a better definition:\u003cbr\u003e“refers to the practice of including necessary legal terms, warnings, disclaimers or other phrases in small writing on commercial or contractual documents. 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