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.
For information about the possible purchase of SORBS, the source code, data, hosts etc, I maybe contacted at michelle@sorbs.net, telephone +61 414 861 744. DO NOT use this email address or phone number for delisting requests, it will only delay any delisting requests.
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)
Generally I hate to see companies going away, but in this case, I cant even begin to say how happy I am. These idiots routinely block large block of IP's in sizes like /19 and /18 for non verified spam reports on a single IP, then make you pay to get delisted. They claim there is no charge, until you actually try and do it. The company I work for owns move then 40 full /16's and over 1/2 of them are now listed by them as spam IP's. The last time we attempted to have them delisted, they requested not only a payment over 100K, they would need root/administrator access to all servers using any IP's within the blocks so they could verify that the spam was no longer being sent. They claim this is the reason for the 100K fee because they would need to hire a team of administrators to do the work. Yeah, we said no.
