[ale] Fwd: Removal of Coloblox Services

[Jim Kinney]

No. The ALE box was NOT doing bitcoin mining. Nor was it involved in
any streaming of any kind.
On Mon, 2017-09-11 at 11:16 -0500, Michael Potter wrote:
> Was the ALE box involved in the bitcoin mining / GOT download or was
> it one of the other groups they host?
> I have a hard time believing it was the ALE box that was the offender
> they mentioned.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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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