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Templates, Modules and Applications

Designs, Templates & Themes

Our Free design templates are licensed for use on your esseff  website. If you choose for some reason to move your site, you will have to make arrangements with Theme Magic or whichever other vendor your design/theme came from. If you purchased a design template for your site, it is transferable to wherever you go.

Web Modules

Web Modules are programs or whole applications that can be added to your site to give it great power. By using any of our Modules or Applications, you agree to the full Software End User License Agreement for the application acquired or the Module User Agreement for our smaller web modules.

Storage and Bandwidth

The Unlimited Plan

Esseff Digital, LLC and it’s EugeneCommerce hosting packages have unlimited storage and bandwidth allotment. (Does not apply to microsites)  This is now known as our Unlimited Plan. We set some rules and guidelines for using our resources. These rules are designed to prevent those few who would take advantage of the Unlimited Plan (at everyone else's expense) from doing so. We're sure you'll agree, the rules are, well, just plain common sense.

The Unlimited Plan, by its nature, is subject to a number of differing and/or additional terms. The Company provides the unlimited space and unlimited transfer in good faith to our Customers so that they may create their Web sites without the fear of running over their Web space or Web traffic allocation. While most Customers will use the extra Web space and traffic for their legitimate Web site needs, we recognize that others may try to take advantage of our offer and use the space and traffic in ways for which it is not intended. In the best interests of our Customers and in an effort to maintain the integrity of our service, the following common sense rules will apply:

1. Customer's site must use and store only the information and data that relates to the Web site provided by the Company.

2. Customer may not resell or give away Web space under a domain name, nor may Customer build Web sites that house "sub domain" Web sites on behalf of other companies, groups or individuals.

3. Customer may not use Customer's Web site to store Web pages, files or data for other IP addresses or domain names, nor may Customer use its Web site as a repository for file, data or "Warez group" download transfers. The Company reserves the right to make this determination, in its sole and absolute discretion.

4. Customer may not use its Web site as a storage area for files that are not linked to Customer's Web pages. That is, the unlimited space and unlimited traffic are provided for User's Web site, not for Customer's personal file storage.

5. The Company's "unlimited traffic and storage" offer is to provide the Company's customers with storage space and bandwidth for active Web pages and cannot be used as a "storage space" for electronic files. An example of sites that fall under "electronic storage" are large archives of images, compressed files, movies, or sound files. All HTML pages MUST be linked to files (HTML, .jpg, .gif, etc.) stored on Company's server and vice versa.

6. The Company does not permit sites in the Unlimited Plan where 20% or more of the monthly traffic is from file downloads, or sites that use more than 10% of system resources, or sites which in the Company's view are detrimental to the enjoyment of the Company services by the Company's other clients, or are in the sole and final judgment of the Company, detrimental to network or business operations.

7. CGI/PERL chat, JAVA chat or any other chat scripts are also not allowed and are considered an abuse of unlimited bandwidth. Any CGI/PERL, JAVA or any other scripts that consume large amounts of CPU usage or memory are also not permitted.

8. Microsoft Media is permitted for clients who have elected and ordered the Company's Microsoft Media Package. All Microsoft Media packages have traffic and data storage measured and metered independently from any limited or unlimited Web hosting plans. All Microsoft Media content must be stored on the designated Microsoft Media server.

Email

Mail Restrictions

E-mail Restrictions:
Email is designed for employees of a company, We do not support giving out free email addresses to subscribers, or members (depending on your package).  Abuses of this are handled on a case by case basis.  There is a 10MB limit on a mailbox, which is plenty for most users. Please understand that email servers are not meant to be used for transferring large files.  Your mailbox size does count against your site disk space limit, and your bandwidth use, however again, abuses to this rule are handled on a case by case basis.

Sending mass email:
We do not allow you to use our mail servers to send mass mailings, or newsletters.  This is for performance reasons.  If you need to send up to 1000 emails, please contact us to arrange for a program to send these emails from your web site (you may use our Ezine I or II subscription systems to handle medium to very large mailing lists. If you need to send more than this, you will need to use SMTP on your local server, or find another service to send the emails for you. 

We do not offer any list server/mailing list services at this time. However, we do have a number of customers that run their own "list server" to send mailings to current customers programmatically. With only a few lines of ASP code, you can loop through your database of customer email addresses and send out a emails using an ASPEmail, a component we support. We have licensed the Premium edition, you can use its SendToQueue method, which allows you to send out hundreds of emails almost instantly, rather then your script running for hours to complete with traditional Send methods that wait for every email to actually be sent before reading the next email address. Also, when you do it this way, you have a lot more control over personalizing the emails you send, since you can include customer-specific information in the email. Please keep in mind that we do not support sending more than a thousand emails at one time (for performance reasons) If you need to send more than that per day, here are some alternatives for you:

1. Get a dedicated server, and send as many as you like from it. You can get information on dedicated servers by contacting us.

2. Set up a WIN2K or NT server at your local office, (or similar), and send as many emails as you like from your local SMTP server. (This is the easiest solution!)

3. Find a third party that will send the bulk emails for you.

4. Use a software package on your local computer that uses SMTP locally to send the emails, for example, http://www.usa-e-mail.net/ or http://www.marketing-2000.net/ (please do not use your email account on our email servers to send the mail.)

5. If you are using our servers to send < one thousand emails, please do this between the hours of 11PM and 3AM, PST.

Here is a typical example of why we don't allow you to send more than one thousand emails per day:
Let's say you send 5000 emails to the queue. Then, imagine a customer of another web site on the server places an order, and the system sends an email to notify the vendor to ship the product. That email has to sit for hours until it gets it's turn to be sent!