Adult Content

Do you allow adult type of content on your servers? We do not have a truly adult site or pornographic site but some of the material would be considered to be adult content.

 

Well, the policy says 'no.' But you're being vague, so it's not really possible to answer.

 

...I've been the CTO for the Internet Watch Dog group for years and could write a book about those two words; Adult content.
Years ago I was a developer for Cimtek and we created several Medical Buyer sites.
Can you imagine how many topics in the on-line Medical Industry are "Adult content"?

Be a bit more specific and you can definitely get a more precise answer. ;-)
All the best,
Mark

 

Most hosting prohibitions against "adult content" are referring specifically to porn, and the restrictions are kind of holdovers from the days when bandwidth was very expensive. It wasn't usually a value judgment, but a cost issue. At least as far as the hosts I have worked for are concerned. Porn typically consumed a lot of bandwidth, and as a host you didn't want those kinds of sites on your network because you lost money on them.

Now bandwidth cost is not the issue it once was, but the "adult content" rules are still in everyone's TOS because we are reluctant to change those kinds of things (and most new hosts just copy another established host's TOS). So the restrictions live on.