What is an acceptable use policy (AUP)?
Short answer
The part of a hosting provider's terms that lists what you may not do on its servers: typically spam, attacks, mining, illegal content, and sometimes Tor exits, open proxies or torrents.
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In more detail
Breaking the AUP can get a server suspended without refund. Provider profiles on this site summarise the rules that most often matter: VPN, proxies, scraping, mining, torrents.