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Dear BoxedArt Members,
This notice is to address the recent downtime of BoxedArt.com, and the Big Resources network of sites this weekend, which began Saturday, February 14, sometime before 9:00 AM EST, and lasted until late Sunday night.
At approximately 8:30am Saturday morning, February 14th, 2004, BoxedArt began losing service from our hosting provider. At such time, we immediately began contacting our host to remedy and rectify this situation. For approximately 8 hours we received no response to any pages, phone calls, or other means of communication submitted for support. Shortly after this 8th hour, we were informed by an officer of our hosting provider, Foonet, that a fiber wire had been cut and that three trucks from UUNet and TimeWarner were on scene, and that the situation was to be remedied by 5:00pm EST. By approximately 4:00pm, we were then informed that there was a power outage that was effecting 3 states that they were working quickly to repair. Based on this information, we had no alternative but to wait for news of this correction.
Then, at approximately 10:00pm, after hours had past from the timeline of correction provided to us, we were finally informed of the real reason behind the sudden and extended downtime. Our hosting provider, Foonet.net, had been raided by the FBI early Saturday morning. During this raid, the FBI shutdown the entire datacenter and seized all servers and materials, which have yet to, and may not, be released to the website owners . Information has been officially released by Foonet.net, on Saturday, February 15th, that all clients servers that were located inside the Foonet data center were seized during an FBI raid to collect information for the investigation of a case involving only a few of Foonet's clients, involved in IRC, and not involved with websites.
Foonet (CIThosting)'s official statement can be found below:
http://www.cithosting.com
Additional speculation regarding the loss of the Foonet datacenter can be found at:
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