It's possible, but not particularly likely, that someone is paying for it because they don't know/don't care. I can't tell you how many medium to large companies I've seen paying thousands per month for empty servers or servers that someone had an abandoned project running on. Many had been paying for years.
Same, some suit tells a middle manager to subscribe to some service. Eventually the underling leaves the company and didn't train the replacement but the auto renewal is still running.
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70times7 ago
Someone is paying to keep this place up.
For a reason.
ForgottenMemes ago
It's possible, but not particularly likely, that someone is paying for it because they don't know/don't care. I can't tell you how many medium to large companies I've seen paying thousands per month for empty servers or servers that someone had an abandoned project running on. Many had been paying for years.
HelpAcct123 ago
Same, some suit tells a middle manager to subscribe to some service. Eventually the underling leaves the company and didn't train the replacement but the auto renewal is still running.
ForgottenMemes ago
Or the IT guy has a minecraft server running on a law firm's email server.
capnflummox ago
Or a Bitcoin box stuffed into a maintenance closet.