[tri-wings] Fw: [Freelists News] Atlink DSL goes under, FreeLists goes with it

Subject: [Freelists News] Atlink DSL goes under, FreeLists goes with it


> ...but we're back.
>
> What follows is the "word on the street," so do take this with a grain of
> salt.  I just want everyone out there to know what I know: Atlink, a major
> mid-west DSL provider is going out of business, and today closed offices
> and laid off their employees in Indianapolis (where FreeLists is/was
> hosted).  According to one unofficial report, Atlink's upstream service
> providers pulled the plug on their circuits, effectively taking them off
> the map.  This is all a result, supposedly, of a major Indianapolis
> customer going bankrupt, leaving Atlink short several million dollars.
> Check the tech news tomorrow and Friday - official confirmation of this
> should be coming out eventually.
>
> Obviously, this had some negative effects on our services.  We experienced
> about a 4-hour outage while I fought back and forth on the phone with our
> ISP (who has been quite helpful through this), and other local networking
> companies, trying to come up with another solution.  The quickest
> resolution was to move FreeLists back to its old network, so we put that
> into effect.
>
> Basically, that puts us back where we were last Friday, before moving to
> our "new network," which today was essentially ripped out from under us.
> Along with the move goes the secondary downtime of waiting for DNS records
> to update, which should be done by tomorrow morning for most.
>
> We are currently exploring other networking avenues -- we're obviously a
> bit hesitant to go with DSL again, but it has served us well in the past,
> and considering the cost of other solutions, we may have to use it again.
> FreeLists will continue to run, we'll find a way to keep it going.  On the
> slate right now are DSL solutions from 2CoolWeb/Covant and a
> fractional/full T1 from our current "new network" ISP.  If anyone has any
> other suggestions or ideas, we're open to them!
>
> Please bear with us while things get sorted out.  This ordeal was as much
> of a surprise to us as anyone, so there was little to do but ride out the
> storm.  If anyone has any questions or concerns, please feel free to voice
> them on freelists-users or to me directly.
>
> Thanks,
>   John
>
>
> - FreeLists Staff


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