[rescue] ohno.mrbill.net / sunhelp might be going away

[Robert Darlington]

I'm happy to pay $10.00 a month just for the fun and games on this mailing
list.   I'm sure you can get others to chip in.

-Bob, N3XKB

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:

> Just got a call from my ISP.
>
> They had a management change (well, investors who control the majority of
> the company now) a few months ago.  Part of that involved going through and
> auditing accounts.
>
> Mine came up, since it was marked as "complimentary".  I was their head
> sysadmin in 1999-2000, and left my system coloed there after I left.  In
> exchange for occasional Solaris consulting and sending them business, I got
> colo and bandwidth as long as it wasn't extreme.
>
> Now they want me to start paying full price.  Looks like it's going to be
> $158/month, for 1U of rack space and 1megabit sustained bandwidth.
>
> I've got until the end of November to figure out what I'm going to do.  Ads
> on SunHELP bring in approximately $30/month, but that only gets paid out
> every 3-4 months.
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> Houston, Texas
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