From 8a09a66c149ebeb0f5a12be57f3c1c998275eabe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Harris Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:19:56 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] add tos --- news/pages/023_tilde.team_down.md | 4 ++- wiki/pages/tos.md | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 wiki/pages/tos.md diff --git a/news/pages/023_tilde.team_down.md b/news/pages/023_tilde.team_down.md index 0ade9c1..a597b2d 100644 --- a/news/pages/023_tilde.team_down.md +++ b/news/pages/023_tilde.team_down.md @@ -9,4 +9,6 @@ hey hi everyone just letting you lot know about why tilde.team was unreachable... fosslinux kind of dun goof'd and ran nmap on the tilde.team machine, and of course, the host, Hetzner, didn't like that as it was against their ToS, and locked the IP. ~ben managed to get it resolved about... a day later? and *yay* we're back up! ~ben's said that he's gonna create a proper ToS now so look out for that. later! -~brendantcc \ No newline at end of file +~brendantcc + +update: i've written up a [post mortem](/~ben/blog/november-13-post-mortem.html) ~ben \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/wiki/pages/tos.md b/wiki/pages/tos.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1f8b015 --- /dev/null +++ b/wiki/pages/tos.md @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +--- +author: ~ben +published: false +title: terms of service +description: tilde.team terms of service +category: + - main +--- + +# terms of service + +tilde.team relies on the common courtesy and consideration of users to make its services fair for everyone. the following offences will result in a service ban: + +tl;dr: don't do anything illegal or harmful, especially anything that could [anger the hosting company](https://www.hetzner.com/rechtliches/root-server/) + +here are some things that we don't allow: + +* deliberately defacing the accounts of other users +* deliberately trying to disrupt tilde.team's server +* using tilde.team as a launch pad for disrupting other servers + - this includes outgoing net- and portscanning +* using tilde.team to impersonate other websites and businesses for criminal purposes +* storing/distributing pornography of any genre and medium (especially child pornography) +* storing/distributing content that defames any individual +* promoting racial, ethnic, religious, political & other forms of bigotry +* mining cryptocurrencies + + +## network considerations + +outgoing net- and portscanning is prohibited on tilde.team. + +after the [major outage](/~ben/blog/november-13-post-mortem.html) of november 13th, we have run in to the clause in the [hetzner tos](https://www.hetzner.com/rechtliches/root-server/) that prohibits net- and portscanning. please don't try to reach anything in the [RFC1918](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1918) private address space. for some reason, packets sent there will end up at the default gateway and may be interpreted as an attack. + +i've added firewall rule to prevent outgoing requests to these subnets: + +* 10.0.0.0/8 +* 172.16.0.0/12 +* 192.168.0.0/16 + + +## resource usage + +in general, we have plenty of resources available. + +however, make sure to not run anything that would disrupt other users. + +to this end, there are a few limits set on your accounts: + +* 200 process/threads at a time +* soft 1gb limit on storage