Funtoo Going Offline!

[Daniel Robbins]

All,

Due to a dispute with our current colocation provider, there is a high likelihood that Funtoo Linux sites, as well as our VPS containers offered to Funtoo users, will be going offline permanently at April 21, 2014, 5 PM US Mountain time.

Yes, you read that right. Going offline permanently. The systems will not be coming back up. There is a high probability that the servers will be held, powered off, by our colocation provider.

I do have backups of funtoo.org, but I do not back up peoples' individual VPS containers. So if you have a container, please back up all important files on it. Our colocation provider is currently limiting our bandwidth to 10Mbit/sec, so be aware that backups will take some time.

I am attempting to resolve this issue but impression is that the negotiations are not going in a good direction and I want as few people as possible to be hurt by this.

My apologies for the situation. Funtoo will return.

-Daniel

[jmmc]

Thanks for the update Daniel.

Possible suggestion: digital ocean (https://www.digitalocean.com/) for Funtoo? They supposedly use (all) SSDs on their back end infrastructure. Fwiw, I'd consider a $2 to $5/mo bump in my subscription if it would help offset costs (if necessary).

[Daniel Robbins]

My intention is to not be discouraged and continue with our VPS plans at a new, much friendlier datacenter provider.

When someone offers to host servers in their datacenter to help your project, with no written contract, apparently you can get hurt if they decide you are competition to their business. They are able to send a large bill and demand payment, or refuse to release your servers.

-Daniel

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[Raphael Bastos]

Digital Ocean is problematic... Have you checked if the SoftLayer behaves Funtoo host?

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[Richard Yao]

Digital Ocean's TOS could be a problem for an OSS project. They reserve the right to terminate service should you post something offensive. They also will terminate people for using too many resources and do allow custom kernels (although it is doable if you are clever) or filesystems.

Anyway, they are a VM provider. What Daniel wants is colocation, which is not the same,

[Richard Yao]

Have you considered making your own data center?

http://www.homedatacenterproject.com/

[jmmc]

ah, right, understood. I did not realize that hard co-lo was necessary. Re: Digital Ocean, Re: TOS...yes, agree, there could be issues with trying to use them to host a project such as Funtoo.

[Erick Sitter]

Aren't the distro files hosted seperately?  I mean, not on funtuoo itself? 

[Daniel Robbins]

Funtoo is now offline. We will be back, soon. So no worries. Hang tight. Enjoy Easter :)

Distfiles are available at:

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/funtoo/distfiles/

This is what www.funtoo.org/distfiles used to redirect you to.

We should try to put together a "funtoo.org is down survivial guide" for the weekend.

It's all very Easter-y. Today funtoo got crucified, but it'll rise from the dead soon. :)

-Daniel

[Bartosz Nitkiewicz]

Hope so! Merry Easter everyone.

Bartosz Nitkiewicz