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I know we have a bunch of diverse users here.  This is just an informal census of IPv6. Do you currently use IPv6 actively at home or in the data center? Feel free to vote and add your comments about IPv6, why you use it, why you don't, etc.

Zayo has done another acquisition. This time Dublin, Ireland, company Viatel.  That company is owned by Digiweb Group.  Deal price: 95 million euros. The deal includes data center assets in eight European countries. Zayo also gets 5200 miles of fiber in eight countries. ...

Working on or wanting to work on some building projects over the winter. One thing I am experimenting with is various materials for simple R-value - think insulating value or ability to keep heat in or out (both are of interest). Looking for cheap and open source solutions for sensing...

Looks like with the launch of Fallout 4, big porno portal Pornohub just took one on the chin. source: http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/13/pornhubs-traffic-dipped-significantly-the-day-fallout-4-came-out/ How big is it?  Pornohub I mean, 66th most visited site online. Guess you need two...

I know we have a bunch of TrueCrypt users around here...  Open project over here that is building upon TrueCrypt and where folks should be now. https://veracrypt.codeplex.com/ Not endorsing this as being 1000000% the best and most secure or anything.  Beware with anything and do your...

So for a long time I was blah about Colocrossing because they were, and sort of continue to be a spam source that needed reigned in. Now currently Quadranet is blowing up on Senderbase.  See: http://www.senderbase.org/static/spam/#tab=3 They are SECOND on the Top          25         50    ...

It appears Incero has rolled out a route optimization platform.  This is generally a good thing. They took it a bit further and interfaced the optimizations to announce to Twitter. Incero Routes ‏@InceroRoutes  3m3 minutes ago 180.97.190.0/24 from DAL, 138ms faster via Zayo, I do this all...

Buffalo, New Jerk, leading web hosting company VSNX known by eight other family of company names including ColoCrossing announces global domination!  We own your hosting! Among the acquisitions in this round...

OVH is offline in Canada right now. Someone miles away from the DC cut fiber somehow. What is alarming here is that fiber goes to Newark, NJ, meaning it appears OVH only has that bandwidth.  No local / regional peering.  Quite strange. 6 strands are down.  OVH CEO said 4 hours.  ...

Do we have Softether users here? Anyone know if Softether is multi core compliant?   Running OpenVPN and meh, CPU on single core has ceiling and probably other overhead that is cramming me on gear.   Looking for a multi-core solution with better support, why I am considering SoftEther as...

Background We covered the original Arvixe acquisition by publicly traded hosting giant Endurance International Group (NASDAQ: EIGI http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=EIGI) last November: "On October 31, 2014, the Company acquired Arvixe, a California-based web presence provider to small and...

Thread splinter... Started over here: Link: https://vpsboard.com/topic/6399-confirmed-greenvaluehost-being-sold-to-xfusesolutions/?do=findComment&comment=100635 Guy shows up here to tell us his GreenValueServer does not equal GreenValueServer of Nuggets fame. Hell ensues, stolen slogan...

ChicagoVPS has been traded to or taken over by ColoCrossing.   Expect ChicagoVPS to show up nested under Hudson Valley Host.   Where all the bad Lowend companies get sent. I am not going to poke the particulars, but this isn't new.  What is new apparently is the exclusive control over the...

Seems like Skype is down all over the globe today. Been one of those Mondays...  Expect more as developers push masses of code, summer is over and fake productivity is back in session.

Looking for collective input here... Those of you utilizing IP blocklists, what are you using as sources these days?   Interested in lists for blocking bad IPs, ads, malware, etc.

There has been a recent issue with moderators over at LET and some guys disappearing or stepping down.  Namely was Spirit who was a long time LET member and moderator. I heard some rumblings prior about this and that.   But I like the real story and encouraging people to come forward.  Come...

Email just went out DATACENTER MIGRATION - SERVICE IMPACTING Location: Jacksonville, FL (JAX) Date: Saturday, August 22nd, 2015 Start Time: 5:00PM EDT End Time: 3:00AM EDT Description: In order to offer better connectivity and to offer an improved level of hands-on support, your equipment is...

Email just received:  Dear Valued Customer,   We regret to inform our GVH customers that we can no longer serve you.  The model that the previous company had was not profitable and we can no longer float the debt.  At this time the servers are defaulted with our provider and will not be...

One of the good guys today sent me something to cheer me up and make me spit milk at the monitor. Ever wondered where Spammers go shopping?  There is a site for it: http://www.mailerforum.com/ This one is a good one to start...