You know why? Because any IP-adress that I can afford, is going to be blackholed.
You make it sound like the blame lies with the Linodes, Digital oceans or even the Hezners or ISPs. This is not their fault. The blame lies, entirely, with Microsoft and Google (And to lesser extend Yahoo) using a cannon to shoot a mosquito.
Again: My IP (the address, not the range) was fine. It had been fine for many years. Why then, must Google and/or Microsoft, randomly, block this address? Why can't they make exceptions for reputable addresses within a range of bad ones? (I know why: they are lazy and use the easy path: just block everything and accept some "collateral damage", especially when that "collateral damage" cements their oligopoli a bit more, and when avoiding that collateral damage not only costs more work, but enables competition to exist (and grow))
You know why? Because any IP-adress that I can afford, is going to be blackholed.
You make it sound like the blame lies with the Linodes, Digital oceans or even the Hezners or ISPs. This is not their fault. The blame lies, entirely, with Microsoft and Google (And to lesser extend Yahoo) using a cannon to shoot a mosquito.
Again: My IP (the address, not the range) was fine. It had been fine for many years. Why then, must Google and/or Microsoft, randomly, block this address? Why can't they make exceptions for reputable addresses within a range of bad ones? (I know why: they are lazy and use the easy path: just block everything and accept some "collateral damage", especially when that "collateral damage" cements their oligopoli a bit more, and when avoiding that collateral damage not only costs more work, but enables competition to exist (and grow))