[bashy]

On the hosting side of things, I can understand why they shut it down and sort of
why they didnt have to inform you...

1. Its in the ToS
2. If your site runs a script of any sort that impedes the performance of the server
thus causing issues for other accounts, then they are well within their rights to
disable what ever is causing it.

If the shoe was on the other foot;

If you was hosting a site on a server and another account was using a script that was
impeding the performance of your site, i am sure you would want the account in question
dealt with swiftly? Am i right?

My policy is the very same, although, I would have contacted you, either to tell you to
disable it asap (giving 6 hours to do so depending on the severity) or i would disable
it my self ( if causing a lot grief for the server).

Shout/Chat boxes that using auto refreshing of any kind can cause decent server load
So if many on the server had these chat boxes the server would grind to a halt, thus
there policy states there not allowed!

Perhaps a dedicated server or a vps should be more suited to yourself?