Re: FYI: Imminent closure of SORBS...

Yikes a sad day indeed, I have used and delisted clients servers from sorbs
for what seems like forever. I wish I had the money to buy it and host it,
it is a damn good service.

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Voytek Eymont <[email protected]> wrote:

> ----- Forwarded message from Michelle Sullivan <[email protected]> -----
>
> From: Michelle Sullivan <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:18:35 +1000
> Subject: Imminent closure of SORBS.
>
> All,
>
> Please feel free to forward this message to any other location/mailing
> list.
>
> It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent closure of
> SORBS.  The University of Queensland have decided not to honor their
> agreement with myself and SORBS and terminate the hosting contract.
>
> I have been involved with institutions such as Griffith University trying
> to arrange alternative hosting for SORBS, but as of 12 noon, 22nd June 2009
> no hosting has been acquired and therefore I have been forced in to this
> announcement.  SORBS is officially "For Sale" should anyone wish to
> purchase it as a going concern, but failing that and failing to find
> alternative hosting for a 42RU rack in the Brisbane area of Queensland
> Australia SORBS will be shutting down permanently in 28 days, on 20th July
> 2009 at 12 noon.
>
> This announcement will be replicated on the main SORBS website at the
> earliest opportunity.
>
> For information about the possible purchase of SORBS, the source code,
> data, hosts etc, I maybe contacted at [email protected], telephone +61
> 414
> 861 744.
>
> For any hosting suggestions/provision, please be aware that the 42RU space
> is a requirement at the moment, and the service cannot be made into a
> smaller rackspace without a lot of new hardware, virtual hosting is just
> not possible.  The SORBS service services over 30 billion DNS queries per
> day, and has a number of database servers with fast disk to cope with the
> requirements.
>
> Thank you for all your support over the years,
>
> Michelle Sullivan
> (Previously known as Matthew Sullivan)
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
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