[ale] Fwd: Removal of Coloblox Services

[leam hall]

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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