[ale] Fwd: Removal of Coloblox Services

[Jim Kinney]

Doh!

On September 11, 2017 6:40:11 PM EDT, Chuck Payne <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:
>Chuck, not Check
>
>On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 12:20 PM Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>> What I love about ALE :-)
>>
>> OK. We have some offers on the table for space and bandwidth.
>>
>> I am upgrading my business class line to much faster and I have
>hosting
>> space.
>> Check Payne and Mike Trauche have also offered space and bandwidth.
>>
>> This will take some interesting coordination of the keepers of the
>DNS
>> listing but it makes sense.
>>
>> I would like to propose that we look at a three-way, round robin
>hosting.
>> The web stuff is easy. The email is more complicated.
>>
>> On Mon, 2017-09-11 at 11:55 -0400, leam hall wrote:
>>
>> Do they have low $$ options? Do we need something more than a small
>LinBit
>> instance or similar?
>>
>> I'm all for thanking and supporting them if we can.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
>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.
>>
>> --
>> Network Operations
>> Coloblox Data Centers
>>
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