Re: News on AIOE's outage

[email protected] wrote:
> 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.
> 


THe guy has a hangup on people using too much bandwidth. He still thinks 
its the year 1983.