Web Site Hosting Agreement - Checklist

WEBSITE HOSTING AGREEMENT CHECKLIST A comprehensive web site hosting agreement checklist and can be download and used. - Checklist - WEBSITE HOSTING AGREEMENT I. GENERAL PURPOSE OF WEB HOSTING AGREEMENT - II. PRELIMINARY MATTERS – Matters generally contained in the opening paragraph and in the Preamble to the Agreement. a. Be certain to accurately describe the parties. Are the parties corporation’s, individuals, partnerships, other entities? It is important that the parties with the rights to the relative products and pages be the actual parties to the agreements. Who owns the copyrights? Make sure all parties with rights that are affected are made parties to the Agreement. b. Describe the purpose for entering the agreements. c. Generally describe the service to be provided such as locating the web site on the host’s server and making it available to Internet users. d. Describe the general business of the pages to be hosted. What is the scope of that page? e. Describe the URL locations of the various pages. III. RESPONSIBILITIES OF HOST a. Hosting Services i. How much server space is being made available? This may tie into pricing of monthly hosting fee. Attach schedule of fees by allocated disc space. ii. Is there a dedicated bandwidth requirement? How much bandwidth is available? iii. Is there a requirement that the server be a certain type? (UNIX, etc.) iv. Is there a warranty that server software be kept up to date? 2 of 6 v. If web design is also included in services under this agreement or a separate agreement, is copyright license tied to continued hosting? vi. Is there a warranty regarding minimum hosting speed? Is T1 required? vii. Is there a limit on t1 and bandwidth sharing? viii. Are there standards for permitted downtime of server? Is periodic maintenance and backup downtime provided for? Are there required response times if there is a server problem? ix. What are required hours of operation and customer support hours? x. Are mirror sites required/permitted? If so, what server can they be on? Separate server