Terms of Service

General Terms

By creating an account on ANodes, accessing, or using our services, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Service, all applicable governing laws, and Discord's Terms of Service. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you must immediately stop using our services.

Purchasing any plan or making any payment transaction on ANodes constitutes automatic agreement to Stripe's Terms of Service.

All users have the same account type. The features, limits, and access depend entirely on the selected plan.

We reserve the right to refuse service, restrict access, or terminate accounts or plans where permitted by law.

We may modify, suspend, or discontinue any part of the service at any time, with or without notice, and without liability.

Service Description

ANodes provides cloud hosting plans designed for lightweight applications such as Discord bots, web applications, APIs, and backend services.

All performance, resource limits, and features depend on the selected plan.

We do not guarantee compatibility with all software, frameworks, or third-party systems.

Third-Party Trademarks: ANodes Hosting is an independent service and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Discord Inc., Stripe Inc., Pterodactyl, or any of their respective affiliates.

Service License

When a plan is activated, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the allocated resources for the duration of the billing period.

All infrastructure and services remain the property of ANodes and its providers.

Payments & Billing

All plans require upfront payment before activation.

By purchasing a plan, you agree to pay all applicable fees, including recurring charges if the plan is renewed.

Failure to complete payment, chargebacks, or fraudulent transactions may result in immediate suspension or termination of access.

Stripe Subscriptions & Cancellations: Standard cancellations of recurring Stripe subscriptions will remain active until the end of your paid billing cycle. If a payment fails, or if a subscription is marked unpaid/incomplete, the standard grace periods apply before suspension or deletion. However, if a subscription is refunded, disputed, or subject to a chargeback, the associated server and all of its hosted data will be deleted immediately from our infrastructure without any grace period.

We may suspend or terminate any plan at any time for violations of these Terms or for system security and stability reasons.

Refund Policy

All payments are non-refundable unless otherwise required by applicable law or explicitly stated in this section.

Refunds are only available if the purchased plan has not been activated, started, or accessed in any form.

Once a plan is activated or used, it is considered fully delivered and no refund will be issued.

Refund requests for unused plans may be submitted through our support system and are subject to review and approval.

Disputes & Chargebacks: If a payment dispute, chargeback, or refund is initiated through your bank or payment provider, the associated server and all of its data will be deleted immediately from our infrastructure without notice. This overrides any applicable grace periods.

EU Consumer Rights

Under EU consumer protection rules, digital purchases may include a 14-day right of withdrawal for distance contracts.

For digital services, this right does not apply once service performance begins with the customer’s prior explicit consent.

By purchasing and activating a plan immediately, you request instant service delivery and acknowledge that your right of withdrawal is waived once performance begins, where permitted by law.

Service Suspension & Termination

We may suspend or terminate any plan at any time for violations of these Terms, abuse, security risks, or legal compliance requirements.

For expired plans (including subscriptions at the end of their billing cycle that do not renew, or subscriptions with failed/unpaid invoices), a 3-day grace period is provided prior to suspension. Following suspension, users have a 7-day grace period to renew their service; if unpaid after 7 days, the server and its data will be permanently deleted. This grace period does not apply to refunded or disputed payments, which result in immediate deletion as detailed under Payments & Billing.

Grace Period Notifications: When a server enters the grace period, the account owner will receive a notification from the bot in the official ANodes Discord server (if they are a member), or in the dashboard notification center if they are not. It is the user's responsibility to monitor these notifications. Failure to receive a notification does not extend the grace period or exempt the user from service suspension or data loss.

Final Deletion: After the 7-day grace period expires, the server and all associated data — including code, files, databases, and configurations — will be permanently deleted from our infrastructure. ANodes does not maintain backups of hosted servers, and deleted servers will not be restored under any circumstances. No exceptions will be made.

Service Cessation & Company Shutdown: ANodes reserves the right to cease all operations and permanently terminate its hosting services at any time. In the event of a permanent shutdown or termination of our services, we will provide reasonable advance notice where possible to allow users to retrieve their data, and users acknowledge and agree that no refunds or service credits will be issued for remaining unused portions of their billing cycles or active plans.

Upon termination, data may be permanently deleted without obligation to restore or recover it.

Resource Usage

All plans are intended for lightweight workloads only.

Excessive resource usage that affects platform stability may result in restriction, throttling, or termination of the plan. Systems are automatically monitored; instances exceeding reasonable resource ceilings or exhibiting extreme CPU abuse (e.g., sustained usage exceeding 300% of plan allocation) are flagged and may be suspended or terminated immediately without notice.

Resource abuse includes, but is not limited to, excessive consumption of CPU, bandwidth, storage, network sockets, processes, or filesystem operations that negatively impact platform stability or other users.

Software whose primary purpose is unauthorized access, persistence, credential theft, proxying, cryptocurrency mining, denial-of-service, evasion, malware delivery, or facilitating attacks against third parties is prohibited.

Abuse prevention systems may automatically suspend services. Users may appeal through the official support system.

Prohibited workloads include large-scale AI inference or other high-intensity computing tasks.

Account Usage

Accounts are personal and not to be sold.

Unauthorized reselling could get you terminated from ANodes.

VPN & Proxy Restriction

Use of VPNs, proxies, or any anonymizing services to access or interact with ANodes platforms (including the website, dashboard, and Discord server) is strictly prohibited. This includes account registration, login, and general usage. Violation of this policy may result in immediate account suspension or permanent termination.

Infrastructure Abuse

Users may not use ANodes services to operate or facilitate proxy services, VPN services, tunnels, relay services, exit nodes, CDN bypasses, reverse proxies, anonymization services, botnets, command-and-control (C2) infrastructure, traffic forwarding, or similar network infrastructure without prior written authorization from ANodes.

ANodes may immediately suspend, restrict, quarantine, or terminate any service that reasonably appears to threaten platform security, infrastructure stability, or other users. Investigation may continue after suspension.

ANodes may temporarily isolate or suspend a service while an abuse investigation is conducted.

Excessive outbound traffic, network scanning, spam, DDoS participation, proxying, tunneling, or abnormal network behavior may result in immediate suspension.

Attempts to evade security controls, abuse detection systems, rate limits, account restrictions, or platform limitations are prohibited.

Creating or using additional accounts after suspension or termination, or assisting another person in bypassing a restriction, is prohibited and may result in permanent removal of all associated accounts.

Service Availability & Upstream Infrastructure

We do not guarantee uninterrupted service, uptime, or error-free operation.

Downtime may occur due to maintenance, hardware failure, network issues, or external factors beyond our control.

ANodes operates using upstream infrastructure and third-party partners. We are not liable for service disruptions, outages, data loss, or plan cancellations resulting from the actions, failures, or policy changes of our upstream providers.

IP Allocations: IP allocations and server addresses are not permanent. ANodes reserves the right to change server IP allocations at any time for maintenance, network optimization, or security reasons without prior notice.

We are not liable for any losses resulting from service interruptions.

Free Plans & Account Limits

Free plans are provided on an as-is basis and may be modified, limited, or removed at any time.

Alternative Accounts Policy: The creation or use of alternative ("alt") accounts is strictly forbidden. Using multiple accounts to bypass free server limits, resource limits, or promotions is a violation of these Terms. If a user is found utilizing alternative accounts, ANodes reserves the right to terminate all associated accounts, delete all hosted servers and data belonging to that individual immediately without notice, and permanently blacklist/ban the user (including IP and Discord identifier bans) from our platform.

Free plan availability and limits may change without notice.

User Responsibility

Users are solely responsible for maintaining backups of their data, files, and configurations.

We are not responsible for data loss, corruption, or deletion under any circumstances.

Disaster Recovery Backups: Automated system backups are performed strictly for disaster recovery and infrastructure restoration purposes. We do not provide individual file or database recovery services for user errors, accidental deletions, or code bugs.

Content Restrictions

To maintain platform integrity, legal compliance, and infrastructure safety, certain content and activities are strictly prohibited on ANodes services.

Prohibited content and usage include, but are not limited to:

Adult, pornographic, or sexually explicit material.

Hate speech, extremist content, harassment, or promotion of violence.

Illegal content or activity under applicable law.

Copyright-infringing or unauthorized distribution of protected material.

Malware, spyware, ransomware, trojans, worms, RATs, backdoors, reverse shells, exploit payloads, phishing infrastructure, token loggers, credential stealers, command-and-control software, or software primarily intended to facilitate unauthorized access.

Fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, or scam-related services.

Unauthorized hacking tools, exploit distribution, or credential theft services.

Data scraping, data mining, automated harvesting, or unauthorized collection of third-party data.

Cryptocurrency mining, wallet drainers, blockchain abuse, or malicious smart contract tooling.

Artificial traffic generation, click fraud, ad fraud, or impression manipulation.

Any content or activity that may harm ANodes infrastructure, reputation, upstream providers, or business relationships.

Age Requirement

Users must be at least 13 years old to use ANodes services.

Impersonation

Plans and hosted services may not impersonate ANodes, third parties, or individuals in a misleading or deceptive way.

Gambling & Financial Services

Use of our services for gambling, betting, or wagering systems involving real-world value is prohibited.

Security & Monitoring

ANodes reserves the right to immediately suspend, restrict, isolate, or terminate any account, server, or hosted content that is reasonably suspected of violating these Terms, posing a security risk, abusing platform resources, or threatening the stability, integrity, or reputation of ANodes or its infrastructure. Such action may be taken with or without prior notice while an investigation is conducted.

ANodes is under no obligation to provide advance notice where immediate action is reasonably necessary to protect the platform, other users, or third parties.

Users may appeal suspensions through the official support system unless the suspension or termination has been explicitly designated by ANodes as final or unappealable. Final or unappealable enforcement actions are not subject to further review.

Shadow Logins: To provide technical assistance and customer support, ANodes administrators may access your user dashboard via "shadow logins" (account impersonation). Under shadow login access, administrators are strictly prohibited and programmatically barred from creating, modifying, deleting, or managing any resources, configurations, or servers. Their access is restricted solely to viewing server status and configuration metadata (such as expiration dates) to verify and troubleshoot support tickets.

Abuse & DMCA Complaints

For copyright takedown requests (DMCA), abuse reports, or law enforcement inquiries, please open an official support ticket in our Discord server: https://discord.gg/msE3UVKgC8. We will investigate and respond to valid abuse reports in a timely manner.

Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, ANodes is not liable for any indirect, incidental, or consequential damages, including loss of data, profits, or business.

All services are provided on an “as-is” and “as-available” basis without warranties of any kind.

Users are fully responsible for all content and activity running under their plans.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless ANodes and its administrators from any claims, damages, liabilities, and legal expenses arising out of your use of the services, hosted content, or violation of these Terms.

Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of Romania.

Any disputes shall be handled exclusively under Romanian jurisdiction.

Changes to Terms

We may update these Terms at any time. Changes will be announced in the dashboard notification center for 2-3 days before taking effect.

Continued use of services after changes take effect means acceptance of the updated Terms.

Final Clause

If any part of these Terms is found invalid or unenforceable, the remaining sections remain in full effect.