[ale] Fwd: Removal of Coloblox Services

[Scott M. Jones]

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:
> 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.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *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.