We had a good run–over 4 years of service. The equipment was racked in the Colo in August of 2021. I had some fun and learned a lot. I hope my friends did too.

Shout outs!

  • My rackmate, @ssh – thanks for getting me into this and being an awesome network engineer.
  • Data Center Dude Josh – thanks for all the service, support and friendship.
  • Britt – thanks for your support, enthusiasm, and hardware!
  • Lanecloud customers – thanks for being part of the project!

So why now?

A few factors… Mainly it’s been time for a while. I’ve been slowly working on v2, but it’s a lot of work. Building something that is serious and meant for other people to use is a large undertaking. It kind of stopped being fun, and all the prerequisite activities just keep taking me away from working on the things I’d rather work on. Sounds similar to TCO and Opportunity cost narratives we use to justify going to the cloud doesn’t it?

Another reason I had kept going was that we had an opportunity to host a big shiny ARM server. Unfortunately after months and months of correspondence, and 2 different vendors, we just can’t seem to get it over the line. It’s not worth waiting and keeping the lights on for it anymore.

Where am I gonna go?

Most of my footprint will probably move to home and Friendnet. NetCup ARM VPS’s are looking really appealing. I might even setup a full k8s cluster out there at some point. I also like HostHatch.

When are things going offline?

I hope to have things fully powered down Mid December 2025.