Re: News on AIOE's outage

On Mon, 27 Feb 2023 15:05:09 +0100
Don Spam's Reckless Son <[email protected]> wrote:
>Sn!pe wrote:
>> Don Spam's Reckless Son <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I'm wondering if he lost his code as well.  That should not be the case,
>>> but something has to explain this.
>>> The raid controller has to be replaced (cost: under 100 € to over 2000
>>> €) but I imagine the discs could still be useable.
>>> This is still speculation and it would be good to know the facts.
>>>
>> 
>> The absence of any word whatsoever from Paolo makes me wonder
>> if he might have some Real Life issues to deal with that take a higher
>> priority than does his service.
>> 
>
>Either that or he has turned his back on the project.
>
>I have been looking at the public information on his site(s) and 
>discovered what most other people already knew, his server(s) are hosted 
>by "Leaseweb Deutschland" and are probably in Frankfurt.  Does this not 
>mean that a hardware error is their problem?

AFAIK he didn't make any money from it, it was a hobby I suppose. Perhaps he
was getting fed up with running it and was thinking about quitting and this 
simply forced his hand.