It comes with great sadness that I have to announce the imminent closure ofSORBS. The University of Queensland have decided not to honor theiragreement with myself and SORBS and terminate the hosting contract.I have been involved with institutions such as Griffith University tryingto arrange alternative hosting for SORBS, but as of 12 noon, 22nd June 2009no hosting has been acquired and therefore I have been forced in to thisannouncement. SORBS is officially "For Sale" should anyone wish topurchase it as a going concern, but failing that and failing to findalternative hosting for a 42RU rack in the Brisbane area of QueenslandAustralia SORBS will be shutting down permanently in 28 days, on 20th July2009 at 12 noon.This announcement will be replicated on the main SORBS website at theearliest opportunity.For information about the possible purchase of SORBS, the source code,data, hosts etc, I maybe contacted at michelle@sorbs.net, telephone +61 414861 744.For any hosting suggestions/provision, please be aware that the 42RU spaceis a requirement at the moment, and the service cannot be made into asmaller rackspace without a lot of new hardware, virtual hosting is justnot possible. The SORBS service services over 30 billion DNS queries perday, and has a number of database servers with fast disk to cope with therequirements.Thank you for all your support over the years,Michelle Sullivan(Previously known as Matthew Sullivan)