Acceptable Use Policy

A short list, because the platform is shared: every project sits on the same machine as other people's. Last updated 29 September 2026.

Do not use MaluDB to

  • break the law of the State of Illinois or of the place you or your users are;
  • store or distribute child sexual abuse material, content that incites violence, or material you have no right to;
  • send spam or run a mailing list people did not ask to be on, including through your project's Auth email;
  • phish, impersonate, or host malware or a command-and-control service;
  • mine cryptocurrency, or run work whose point is to consume the shared machine's CPU, memory, disk or bandwidth;
  • attack anyone — port scanning, credential stuffing, denial of service — from a project, or attack this platform, other customers' projects, or the machines they run on;
  • work around a plan's limits: extra accounts to get more free projects, or automation that re-creates a project to reset a ceiling.

Security research

Testing the security of your own project is fine. Testing the platform itself, or another customer's project, is not, unless we have agreed it in writing first. If you find a vulnerability, tell us at security@maludb.org and give us a reasonable chance to fix it; we will not pursue anyone who reports in good faith and does not access other people's data.

Fair share of a shared machine

Plan limits are published and enforced automatically: over a limit, a project is restricted rather than deleted, and it recovers when it is back under. Separately, we may step in where one project is making the platform worse for others even within its limits.

How this is enforced

Projects pressing on their ceilings appear on an internal report the platform owner reviews weekly. That report only reports: suspending or closing a project is a deliberate action a person takes. Where we act, we will normally warn you first and give you a chance to fix it. For something serious or illegal we may suspend immediately, and will tell you why.

Reporting abuse

To report something hosted on MaluDB, write to abuse@maludb.org with the project URL and what you saw. We aim to acknowledge within 2 business days.