[ale] Fwd: Removal of Coloblox Services

[Jim Kinney]

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. 


-------- Original Message --------
From: Coloblox Network Operations <netops at coloblox.com>
Sent: September 11, 2017 11:00:00 AM EDT
To: Coloblox Network Operations <netops at coloblox.com>
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. 

-- 
Network Operations 
Coloblox Data Centers 


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