[ale] Fwd: Removal of Coloblox Services

[Jim Kinney]

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.
> > 
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> > Coloblox Data Centers
> > 
> > 
> > 
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