[ale] Fwd: Removal of Coloblox Services

[Jim Kinney]

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.
On Mon, 2017-09-11 at 12:00 -0400, Scott M. Jones wrote:
> 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.
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