Terms of Service
Effective 24 July 2026
These terms govern your use of Server Deck. By creating an account you agree to them.
1. What Server Deck is
Server Deck operates motop, an assistant that answers system-administration questions using a curated knowledge base of documented operational experience, supplemented by general knowledge where the knowledge base is silent.
2. Advice is informational — you remain responsible
motop produces informational suggestions, not instructions to execute. Commands and procedures it returns may be wrong, incomplete, or unsuitable for your systems. You are solely responsible for reviewing, testing, and deciding whether to run anything on your infrastructure.
Before acting on any answer you must independently verify it against your own environment, take your own backups, and understand the blast radius of any change. Never run a destructive command — including deletions, disk operations, database drops, service restarts, or failovers — on the strength of an answer alone.
Server Deck is not your system administrator, engineer, or consultant on retainer. Using the service does not create a professional engagement, a managed-service arrangement, or any duty of care.
3. Accounts
- Accounts are created through GitHub or Google sign-in. You must be able to access that account and keep it secure.
- An account is for one person. Do not share credentials.
- You must be old enough to form a binding contract where you live.
- You are responsible for everything done through your account.
4. What it costs
motop is free. There is no paid plan, no subscription, and no payment details are ever collected.
Questions are unlimited. We may introduce a fair-use limit if that becomes necessary to keep the service available, and we may change or discontinue the service at any time.
If you find motop useful you may choose to send a voluntary tip through a third-party tipping service. That transaction is entirely between you and that provider under their own terms — we do not process payments and never see your card details. A tip is a gift, not a purchase: it buys no additional service, no support entitlement, no priority, and no guarantee, and it does not create a contract for services between us.
5. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Resell, redistribute, or provide the service to third parties as your own.
- Systematically extract the knowledge base, or use automated means to scrape answers in bulk.
- Use the service to plan or carry out unauthorised access to systems you do not own or administer.
- Attempt to disrupt the service, evade usage limits, or create accounts to circumvent them.
We may suspend or terminate accounts that breach these terms, and may apply rate limits to protect the service.
6. Availability
The service is provided on an as-available basis. We do not guarantee uptime and may change, suspend or discontinue features. We will give reasonable notice of material changes where practical.
7. Intellectual property
The knowledge base, the software, and the Server Deck name remain ours. Your questions remain yours. You may use the answers you receive freely in your own work.
8. No warranty
The service is provided “as is”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.
9. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, Server Deck is not liable for any indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, nor for loss of data, service outages, downtime, lost profits, or damage to systems arising from your use of the service or reliance on any answer.
Our total aggregate liability is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim arose.
Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including your statutory rights as a consumer.
10. Termination
You may stop using the service at any time. We may terminate or suspend access for breach of these terms. On termination your right to use the service ends; sections 7 to 9 survive.
11. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms. Material changes will be reflected in the effective date above and, where significant, notified by email. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept it.
12. Governing law and disputes
These terms are governed by applicable law. If a dispute arises, both parties agree to attempt good-faith negotiation first. Failing that, the dispute proceeds to binding arbitration or a jurisdiction agreed in writing. Mandatory consumer protections in your country of residence still apply.
13. Contact
Questions about these terms: [email protected].