What Can Cause Your Leprd Hosting Account to Be Terminated?

Leprd can terminate an account without warning for three reasons: hosting prohibited or illegal content, having all domains in the account expired for at least three consecutive months, or having all domains in the account not pointed to Leprd's servers for at least three consecutive months. Terminations are irreversible, so if any of these situations might apply to you, resolve it before it reaches the three-month mark.

The three termination triggers

Leprd's own policy page lists the following grounds for termination, and states that an account may be closed without warning:

Two details matter here. First, the domain conditions apply when all domains on the account meet the condition — if you hold several domains and only one has expired or been repointed, you are not in that state yet. Second, the clock is measured in consecutive months, not days, so a brief lapse while you renew or reconfigure a domain is not automatically fatal.

Prohibited content: the fastest way to lose an account

The content rules are the trigger most likely to end an account abruptly, because termination for prohibited or illegal content does not wait for a three-month window.

Leprd says it loves to host hobby-related sites, including:

• Art websites, blogs, cliques/fanlistings, collectives/networks
• Fansites/shrines, graphics/design/code resource sites
• Non-profit and personal websites, portfolios, school projects
• Trading card games

It does not host, among other things:

• Booters/stressers, botnets, bots/crawlers, chatrooms
• CPU-intensive software, cryptocurrency mining, DoS attacks, doxxing
• File/image/video hosting, game servers, hacking-related activity
• Hate/harassment websites, illegal adult content, piracy
• IP spoofers, IRC, malware/viruses, nulled software/warez
• Online pharmacies, open DNS resolvers, phishing sites, port scanners
• Proxies, spam, Tor exit nodes, torrents, traffic exchange
• Video chatting software, VPNs

The policy also sets rules that can lead to termination if broken: you must be at least 13 years old, you may hold only one active account, your site must be up within two weeks of acceptance, you must keep installed scripts up to date, you must not use your space as idle storage, and you must not run paid advertisements such as Google AdSense (donate buttons like Ko-fi or PayPal are allowed). You also may not resell or provide hosting to others using your plan. Everything you upload must comply with the laws of the Netherlands, the United States, and your country of residence.

Domain expiry and nameserver drift

The two domain-based triggers are slower and easier to miss, especially for hobby sites you set up and then forget.

• Expiry: if every domain in your account has been expired for three consecutive months, the account can be terminated. Renewing at least one domain resets this.
• Nameservers: if every domain in your account has stopped pointing to Leprd's servers for three consecutive months, the same applies. Leprd's nameservers are ns1.leprd.space and ns2.leprd.space, so a domain still using those is pointed correctly.

A practical check: log in to your registrar, confirm at least one domain is unexpired and still delegated to ns1.leprd.space / ns2.leprd.space, and note the renewal date. If you are migrating a domain elsewhere, keep another domain on Leprd pointed correctly, or expect the three-month countdown to start.

What to do if you are unsure

Terminations are irreversible, and Leprd's policy explicitly invites questions: "if you feel unsure about anything, never hesitate to directly ask." Because all communications are via email, keep your contact information current so warnings or notices actually reach you — an outdated address means you may never see a message before an account is closed.

If you are unsure whether a planned site fits the allowed categories, ask before building it. If you are unsure whether a domain lapse counts, ask before the third month passes.