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July 26, 2010 Unexpected downtime today, server rebooted.

May 21, 2010 Upgrading to 10.04 this weekend; expect downtime

April 30, 2010 As most people who tried it found out, Solaris 10 didn't work out too well. OpenSolaris is now being used. Try it out: solaris.st0rage.org

March 26, 2010 Try the new Solaris 10 server using your existing login information: solaris.st0rage.org

February 19, 2010 st0rage will be moving to Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) when it is released. I will let you know a week in advance when this downtime is happening. We will also be upgrading the hardware. :D

January 13, 2010 Added a section describing limits (background proccesses, memory usage, etc.) to the shell section here.

December 10, 2009 Oracle PHP and Java support are working now.

November 8, 2009 Oracle has been installed; feel free to request a database.

October 26, 2009 Tomcat has been installed; if you're interested in running any JSP/Tomcat applications contact me about getting access.
August 21, 2009 Server is back up with more RAM, and you can execute things in /home again.
August 20, 2009 There will be downtime tomorrow August 21st as I reboot the server into a new kernel. After this /home will once again allow executables to be run and we'll be adding some more RAM.
August 13, 2009 /home is currently mounted noexec due to recently security exploit... waiting for patch until I restore execution of custom programs.
June 26, 2009 Power outage yesterday, caused phone and power to go down. Looks like we're back up...
April 9, 2009 Server had to be restarted today; ran out of swap space. Increased swap to 8GB.
January 31, 2009 st0rage.org is having DNS issues.
January 23, 2009 There will be downtime announced in the next coming weeks as we replace the current st0rage.org server with improved hardware.
January, 5, 2009 Happy New Years, everyone. We had a connection issue when AT&T had some telco lines go down yesterday. Everything is back to normal.

I've also added password expiration (every 180 days); all current users will need to log in, set a new password and log back in again.
October 17, 2008 I will be taking down the server this weekend, time permitting, for some hardware maintenence.
October 14, 2008 WE Energy had some issues in my area last night; the constant loss of power caused RAID on the server to fail and WastedMemory was able to fix it.
September 26, 2008 There was some downtime tonight; networking issue that forced us to take the server down.
September 25, 2008 Want a shell, but don't feel like paying?

I'm looking to replace http://bbis.us with a new site, but don't have time to design one myself. Anyone who sends me a plain but good looking template for bbis (BlackBox Internet Services) will receive a free shell account.
termina (at) gmail (dot) com
June 15, 2008 Shell sign-ups are open for people who donate; see the Shell Account section for more details.