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To save people from looking, it has been changed to; --- To operate servers for commercial purposes. However, personal, non-commercial use of servers that com
by tnuc 13y ago
To save people from looking, it has been changed to;
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To operate servers for commercial purposes. However, personal, non-commercial use of servers that complies with this AUP is acceptable, including using virtual private networks (VPN) to access services in your home and using hardware or applications that include server capabilities for uses like multi-player gaming, video-conferencing, and home security.
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- numbsafari 13y agoThey specifically left email off of that list. The question is: can I host servers that may compete with the commercial offerings of Google? Can I host my personal blog? Can I host my personal email server?
- q3k 13y agoYou will most likely be not able to host a personal email server from a residential ISP without an IPv4 address tunnel, anyway. Without a proper reverse DNS record and an IP address not from a residential pool, most properly configured servers will reject emails immediately (in order to combat spam).
- rhizome 13y agoI've had no trouble paying a little extra for static IPs, not to mention delegated reverse DNS, over the past 15 years.
- sliverstorm 13y agoI doubt they are trying to cut off competition to GMail. Email is blocked typically as a matter of convention by the majority of ISPs. It requires features 99.9% of customers don't care about in the slightest, and invites spam problems.
- rhizome 13y agoIt may be blocked by the ISPs that service a majority of people (i.e. cable companies), but I don't have any reason to think that it's blocked by a majority of ISPs.
- doctorohhnoes 13y agoI'm surprised to hear that. I've never had a problem with an ISP blocking SMTP.
- kodablah 13y agoInbound on port 25? I know my ISP does
- doctorohhnoes 13y agoCome to think of it, I've never looked at inbound stuff. You'd think outbound would be where all the spam problems come from, though.
- sliverstorm 13y agoIf you block 25 outbound, people's mail clients (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc) could not deliver mail to servers that don't run SSL or TLS (465, 587)
- werid 13y agoLots of ISPs does this. They require you to relay via their SMTP-server.
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- betterunix 13y agoI do not think that is an exhaustive list. The only thing it excludes are commercial operations, so I would assume that yes, you can run personal services (even services you share freely with friends or strangers), but that you cannot try to monetize those services. IANAL though.
- pyre 13y agoI think that they might have an issue with you hosting the "Next Facebook" from your house, even if it's not a commercial operation.
- cmatteri 13y agoOr P2P services, which could potentially present a greater threat to Google. Only a small fraction of network users are willing and able to run a personal server, and even those that do aren't capable of competing with Google in terms of hardware. Decentralized content sharing could remove those obstacles, and a high bandwidth network could facilitate the adoption of P2P services.
- sounds 13y agoI suspect that if the P2P client ran google's ads they wouldn't be opposed. Google is pretty savvy to P2P, but it does remove their ability to push ads at you. The latter is what would bother them.
- ChuckMcM 13y agoActually an email server that provides mail for you is a 'non commercial use', it would be commercial if you were offering other people email accounts on it and charging them for it. It gets a little bit dicey if you host your blog on a server (btw I just setup Ghost on an Rpi and it makes for a very cute little blog-pliance) and your blog has ads and provides you with an income stream.
- sliverstorm 13y agoAlthough if your blog has Adwords, maybe they wouldn't mind... :)