Thanks for the great thread guys, glad we made mention here.
For clarification for most of you here that have commented - I have put more than 6 years into IBN. The post someone made was correct we used to be one of the largest and most popular places on the net for scanning listening .... However things have taken there toll on us over the years. The economy for the first part. I personally have been paying out of pocket month after month with very little support from the community as for as what we did. No one really helped out with donations and such at all. They all wanted something for free, and whenever fees or contributing came up, I got shot down and was left flipping the bill.
For a great example, the Obama Inauguration in where we also let RR re-feed the feed cost me over $1000 in bandwidth and no one ever helped out with it and I didnt make a cent on it. I had been paying $200 monthly for 6 years so that comes out to about $14,400. And currently I am only working a PT job due to the economy the way it is. So that became a burden.
My health played a factor in all this as well. I am diabetic and had lost my main job in Vegas last year due to an illness diabetic related. Over this last year I accrued more medical bills that you could imagine. I am barely making the payments on it as it is.
We spent the last year revamping many things trying to get participation. The TS3 program was on track, and a great program. We didnt expect everyone to make the move right away. The program was a bit too simple for some of them out there for them to understand People couldn't figure out there was no user registration. The TS2 program is at end of life and no longer supported byt the TS people. You cant even download the program from their website. And if you download it from somewhere else, that nulls and voids the terms of service. So it was a move we had to make due to the the way TS people made it.
As for the short notice on closing down, I would love to have given more notice, believe me - IBN was my life. The data center informed me Friday morning that they wewre seeing an error on the HD and were going to have to replace it this weekend. That meant total new HD, OS reinstall and then me going in and getting Icecast reinstalled, TS3 reinstalled, All server OS reconfigired, Pay for certain modules again like the firewall and mail scanner software which would have taken days.
Right now I am in the middle of EMT class, and this is really important to me. I do not have the time to be able to piece everything back together. I failed a quiz the other day and that was not like me at all. Luckily today I got over 90%. But when I take everything factored in, the Financial, Mental stress, lack of new involvement, and then the fact that the server HD had to be replaces - and then one last final piece, if I moved to a smaller cheaper server by the end of the weekend I saved $200 on the next server bill I didnt have to pay.
So time was just not really on my side to have to pay another $200 to wait for everyone to talk about it. I already spent $14,000 with not much thanks.
So there you have it guys ... Finally an official post by me regarding what transpired.
