MikroTik

Thank you Dave for a great service. It was nice. And yes... i would pay for this extra layer of security....

dear dave, sorry you want to close the server, I ask you just this, sets a monthly price fair, and post it qua payment via paypal or bitcoin, if the initiative is not successful then you will decide whether to close or not, what do you say?
Your script I need a lot is a shame to lose it!!
frank.

So, I've thought about this a lot. I was quite surprised by the support generated. So I think I will restart the service as a paid service to pay for the server and backspace. In total, the servers currently cost me about $1750 a month, but I'm downsizing everything and going to try and get it down to a more manageable $250~500/month.

I'm going to rebuild this from the ground up, no I want be doing BGP just because of the amount of administrative overhead.
I would really like to wait on the script side, as I'm hoping to see if I can use the function library that Mikrotik has mentioned may be coming soon.

If their are features you would want to see, let me know and I'll put them on the list of possibles.

One feature for a paid version I would like to implement is a management portal.
* Manage your subscription options (Number of devices permitted to use your sub / payment method)
* Manage your device serial numbers associated with your subscription
* Manage a whitelist of IPs/Subnets that you need excluded from your list
* Manage a blacklist of IPs/Subnets that you need included in your list

Please, when you have it all worked up and ready to accept suscriptions notify it here.
We'll be eager to use it.

@IntrusDave you can count me in for the paid service. The feature list sounds good. Do let us know on this thread and we'll be most happy to do beta testing for you.

I'd like some input on what this is worth to people in $USD.
My thought was $5/month for 5 devices, $10/month for 15 devices.

Dave that sounds reasonable to me, could also be yearly subscriptions.
Say $50 yr 5 devices, $150 yr 15 devices.

Thanks for all your work. I too would be happy to pay. 50/year for 5 devices would be great. I would sign up for two blocks

privat... 10 for 1 device in a year... i dont need more devices

10€/device/year. Private use.

• I think that I am pleased if I can pay annually and discounted.

• I am glad that payment can be made with paypal.

single device, $10/year

Dave! First off I will GLADLY pay 5$/month for up to 5 devices!

Secondly, thank you for this awesome service you have provided to the community. I had been using it since sometime last year and it helped me sleep better at night knowing a good chunk of the negative aspects of the internet will stay away from my setups.

Please keep us posted and godspeed!

Private Use: 10$/year/device
Commercial Use: 5$/month up to 5 devices

Let's hope you can make it work

It is temporary locations to download ... it does not matter where it is ... after importing lists script could be removed form flash, disk etc.

But it is imported as static entries because of missing timeout parameter in the script, so they are written to NAND on every change. They should change it in the script

Please do keep us posted as to your development.
Please also consider those of us in places like South Africa, where US$1 works out at almost 15 times that price in ZAR.

- LESS IS MORE -
If you look at statistical data of the most successful PAID apps in the Google Play Store, the 99c apps do far better in sales than anything priced over that amount. (You do the math >> Google charges mere cents [or a fraction thereof] for many of its ad services << Doesn't that tell you something about charging less for more, and still being financially successful!!)

- REMEMBER -
In todays online environment, you have customers not only from a single country, but now the entire globe as your market place....

- ANOTHERWORDS -
Please make your products more accessible to more customers, and you'll be able to make way more money, which in turn will facilitate your ability to have better resources to maintain and deliver your product.

The weather and politicans are already killing us -
FOR THE MOST PART - here in Cape Town. So, your kind consideration [when determining a fee], is GREATLY APPRECIATED!

Thank you and keep up the excellent work...

ANTHONY.capetown

Antony, I understand your suggestion and you can't ask for a lower price for parts of the world. It would be possible if Dave could also his daily shoppings in SA.

Maybe Bitcoin or other digital money have beter rates or as you sugest Playstore in a app with a subscription. You still have yo buy that 'currency'.

you can't ask for a lower price for parts of the world

You cannot just because everyone is doing like this? Google Play Music, Battlenet Shop - they all have different prices for Russia, for example.

Hi. Do we maybe have some new info? Do we maybe know, if the service will be started again (in exchange for money)? As wrote I am willing to pay 10€/year/device.
Thank you, Uros

Not really an update, just information.

I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my life. At 43, I started not liking what I was doing for work. I've tried a few different things, including running a large non-profit for a while. Now I'm closing in on 45 and I still don't know. Fact is, I'm best at tech stuff and car stuff.

Anyway. I've shutdown all of my hardware servers and pulled them from the datacenter. It was just costing too much.

I'm currently experimenting with Google Cloud Compute platform to see if it will be a viable home for a new blacklist service. I hope to have new servers completed this week, and hope to start building a new Blacklist from scratch maybe next week. I still haven't found any decent subscription management systems. Anyone have suggestions on something Open Source?

Hi Dave,
I think your black-ist vas a great extra security layer. I think 10$ / device /year sounds great and from me and the company where i work you will have 3 subscriptions.
Again, nice work!
Keep it up.

Not really an update, just information.

I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my life. At 43, I started not liking what I was doing for work. I've tried a few different things, including running a large non-profit for a while. Now I'm closing in on 45 and I still don't know. Fact is, I'm best at tech stuff and car stuff.

Anyway. I've shutdown all of my hardware servers and pulled them from the datacenter. It was just costing too much.

I'm currently experimenting with Google Cloud Compute platform to see if it will be a viable home for a new blacklist service. I hope to have new servers completed this week, and hope to start building a new Blacklist from scratch maybe next week. I still haven't found any decent subscription management systems. Anyone have suggestions on something Open Source?

You just need to do what makes you happy. It's fine not to know what to do with your life as long as you enjoy not knowing what to do.
If you love tech and cars, do something that involves putting tech in cars and innovate in that area. 8 years ago I was made redundant from my then dream job of being a car audio specialist, I quickly fell into my second hobby which was PC gaming and computers. Now I would love to apply my knowledge of tech, small SoC systems and mobile networking into the automotive sector however I am happy(ish) with what I am doing and this thread is about your amazing service!

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I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my life. At 43, I started not liking what I was doing for work. I've tried a few different things, including running a large non-profit for a while. Now I'm closing in on 45 and I still don't know.

You need "grown-up gap year"

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I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my life. At 43, I started not liking what I was doing for work. I've tried a few different things, including running a large non-profit for a while. Now I'm closing in on 45 and I still don't know. Fact is, I'm best at tech stuff and car stuff.

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I'm currently experimenting with Google Cloud Compute platform to see if it will be a viable home for a new blacklist service. I hope to have new servers completed this week, and hope to start building a new Blacklist from scratch maybe next week. I still haven't found any decent subscription management systems. Anyone have suggestions on something Open Source?

To the first point, you gotta do what you love. Often the things we're good at aren't what we love though...so that's a tricky one.

As for a subscription system, check out 'Servicebot' and 'Kill Bill'. I don't have experience with them, but they're open-source and look like they'll get the job done. There's always PayPal (*shudders*) or setting up something directly e.g. with Stripe as an alternative.

Best of luck!

New topic for development of the new service

viewtopic.php?f=9&t=136666

Do you need some servers in europe? Perhaps I can help you?

Servers shouldn’t be an issue, I’ve moved my physical servers to google cloud and will be running on google’s CDN

Thanks for running the service all these years and doing such a great job with the script and updates! ive really appreciated it. I too would pay 5 (maybe 10$) a month for this same service to continue.

Is there anywhere we can signup for an email/alert when your paid service goes live? (other than sub'ing to this thread which will have lots of other "noise").

(also you might want to put a date under your red txt about the service going down, in your first post. its a bit hard to figure out if the service is already down, or if you are planning to take it down). thanks

Thanks! Check out the development topic. I posted an early pre-alpha script to try and start stress testing the database.

Here is a form to fill out if you want to be notified when the new service goes live:

https://goo.gl/forms/UQMYqKJ54E0iV35l2

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