<html><head></head><body><div>No. The ALE box was NOT doing bitcoin mining. Nor was it involved in any streaming of any kind.</div><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2017-09-11 at 11:16 -0500, Michael Potter wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Was the ALE box involved in the bitcoin mining / GOT download or was it one of the other groups they host?<div><br>I have a hard time believing it was the ALE box that was the offender they mentioned.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Jim Kinney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com" target="_blank">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div>I their defense, I never changed the link on ALE front page from Xilogix to Coloblox after the merger occured. I saw a notice, got busy, forgot, and never revisited that email until I needed a tech reboot of the hardware then _still_ failed to make the change after I got distracted onto another issue and forgot again.</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div>On Mon, 2017-09-11 at 12:00 -0400, Scott M. Jones wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre>My feeling is wow, what an attitude. Lumping us all together like that.
I say time to move on.
Jim, have you given any customer referrals to them?
-Scott
On 9/11/17 11:27 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
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Crisis time. Ale has to move its donated service _now_.
Coloblox is sadly pulling the plug on its donated services.
We need a colo space that will donate a machine and bandwidth. My
basement lacks redundant power and/connectivity. I can host temp as
required. I'm looking through hardware now to see what I can build up.
Many thanks to Xilogix/Coloblox for their many years of support.
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*From:* Coloblox Network Operations <<a href="mailto:netops@coloblox.com" target="_blank">netops@coloblox.com</a>>
*Sent:* September 11, 2017 11:00:00 AM EDT
*To:* Coloblox Network Operations <<a href="mailto:netops@coloblox.com" target="_blank">netops@coloblox.com</a>>
*Subject:* Removal of Coloblox Services
To all it may concern,
Please make arrangements to migrate your data/equipment out of the
Coloblox data center by the first week of October. After years of
supporting opensource/community projects (and many years before that by
the previous owners) we have made the decision to stop it.
We have never been out to make a profit off our donated services but
when we provide resources that are abused and taken advantage of in ways
that have zero and even negative benefit to our company it has to stop
somewhere.
We have donated server hardware, bandwidth, colocation space, and even
roof access for satellites, HAM radios, aircraft trackers, etc, and have
been mostly met with illegal torrent downloads, for profit
web/VPS hosting, DDOS attacks, random items like bitcoin miners
appearing in donated colo space, and even a simple lack of credit given
to our company for eating the costs associated with this. We've always
been intrigued how people in the opensource community will throw the
biggest fit if someone doesn't release modified code back to the
community, or their copyright isn't kept perfectly in place with T's
crossed and I's dotted, but those same people make little to no effort
to acknowledge their colo space, power, and bandwidth is all donated by
some company they never bother to mention or just figure that 1Gbit port
is there for whatever they want like Game of Thrones torrents which at
that point copyright suddenly doesn't matter to them. This would be
different if it was isolated to one user, but it's the general overview
of most users. Some users download torrents and some don't, but when we
see a 10 Amp spike on a power circuit and find bitcoin miners it just
shows abuse comes in may forms.
That said, we've had enough. If you have data stored on any servers/VPSs
in our facility please migrate/backup anything you'd like to keep as
servers will be shutdown on Oct 6. If you have physical equipment in the
data center please make arrangements to pick it up by October 6th.
We are sorry it's come to this but for something that has never gained
us a customer referral or even some useful acknowledgment of our
company, it's obviously not worth the hassle of dealing with various
forms of abuse that does nothing but increase.
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