[ale] Fwd: Removal of Coloblox Services

Mon Sep 11 15:39:50 EDT 2017

On Mon, 2017-09-11 at 15:36 -0400, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Before everyone jumps in their SH*T...  They've been in contact with
> me
> and I have my own pass token and access into their data center.  That
> whole area in Marietta is undergoing massive renovations.  The office
> park they are housed in is under new management (and likely to result
> in a close encounter of the bulldozer kind).
> 
> They're giving us a month's notice, which is more than some people
> have
> gotten in the past.  IIRC, one ISP went TITSUP (Total Inability To
> Support Usual Performance) years ago and their customers only found
> out
> when they arrived at the datacenter only to find they were locked out
> and equipment was confiscated.
> 
> I've been with these guys longer than many of you can imagine.  It
> was
> Random Access in 1992, then Comstar in 1996, then Globix in 2000,
> then
> Xilogix in 2005 and finally Colobox in 2014.  I'm in the same boat
> except I have an entire rack of equipment to move to a new facility. 
> I've been half way expecting this for some time and it took longer
> than
> I expected.  The BULLDOZERS mating over there in Marietta off Cobb
> Parkway was a clue over a year ago.
> 
> And I'm now in Athens.  No good options.  What ever you want to say
> about Coloblox, it pales in comparison to what I have to say about
> AT&T, Charter and Comcast.  I would love to pull my whole operation
> back into my home but most of the people at the above three (and
> we're
> really out of the Comcast area where we are) don't even know how to
> speel BPG, which I need to advertise me /16. 
^^^^^^^^^^^

BGP...  How ironic.  :-)

Mike

> > 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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