After seeing "VOIP - Coming soon" for so many months, coupled with the vacancy of the SoBu offices, it shouldn't come as a surprise. Pity is that it ended up falling on the shoulders of its sole officer as Shane was a stand-up fellow, good programmer and always looked for ways for FOSS to provide good deals. I think the downturn, coupled with anemia as SD moved away from web development and more into ISP, proved more than it could handle. Shane was a follower (distant subscriber) to this list and long-time Sovernet net-admin who, I'm sure, would not leave people hanging w/out any recourse were it not for some good reason. Aside: But, I'm sure 7days is glad they moved off of their SD/typo3 site:)
On Thursday 12 March 2009, Josh Sled wrote: > Stanley Brinkerhoff <[email protected]> writes: > > “We’d received an email about a month ago, telling us they were going to > > close on Friday the 13th,” said Bethany Silva, the technology coordinator > > for King Street Youth Center. “They shut down on > > Monday.” > > > > .... Caught off guard? I mean sure -- 5 days early -- but they had a > > months notice. When were they going to think about moving their site? > > Next week? > > > > That being said -- this article humorously trivializes the effect (150 > > businesses with no online presence is mentioned over half way into the > > article) while tries to make a huge issue from the > > "lost gigabytes"!!. > > > > Sigh. Non-techs should ask for help with their tech stories. > > Perhaps it took those same non-techies who were customers of Silicon > Dairy more than 24 days to find and establish a relationship with a > techie to could even begin to start working on the migration of their > "working without issue since 2001" site. > > I've tried to "move" personal/organizational sites in my spare time > (such as VAGUE's, in fact, recently), and it can easily take weeks of > lag time, even with concentrated effort at times. And a non-techie > business relying on semi-techie help for their online presence can take > at least as long. > > Also, does "no online presence" really mean "customer that doesn't have > a website, but relied on «[email protected] for inbound and > outbound email"? Cause I've seen a number of places that advertise > emails like that online and in newspapers … I bet those addresses aren't > getting forwarded tomorrow, before updates can be widely dispersed. >
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