[rsync]

OK, now I remember:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11611571

It was Michael Crawford.

JohnCompanies, the first VPS provider, and the incubator of what eventually became rsync.net, did all of the original advertising on kuro5hin.org. I actually grew the company a fair amount just on the basis of those small ads on k5.

While I was never an active member of the community there I had enough random exposure to it to absorb a little bit of what went on there...

Sorry for the noise :)

[nobody9999]

Yes. Michael David Crawford[0]. RIP MDC[1].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19489570

[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/51d72b41e4b0f798b53a3...

[jcrawfordor]

At one point when funemployed and living in a better DC market I considered trying to start a VPS operation but decided against it since the market is so hypercompetitive. I guess I'd have been in good company. Now that I live in the forsaken desert I have to ship my hardware to a different state to get a decent colo rate, so that's right out.

[TylerE]

Hah, there's a name I haven't thought of in a while. I had a JohnCompanies server way back in the day.