CGI Abuse Policy

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 Da Web Works has created its CGI Abuse policy for its virtual server users.

What does Da Web Works 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. Da Web Works is the sole determinant of what consititues degraded server performance.

Why does Da Web Works have this policy?

A Virtual Server is shared. As such, there are many accounts per machine. In all fairness, Da Web Works will not 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, 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 be using excessive amounts of system resources will receive an email warning and/or telephone contact from Da Web Works Support. This warning will inform you that there is too much CGI running and it will provide options for reducing the usage or upgrading your account. If you do not reduce the usage within 24 hours of the contact, your account will be suspended until the necessary changes are made. Please note that if the site is causing major server errors that your account may be supended immediately, until client has contacted us and has reduced its CGI usage.