This is getting old, even older than I.
I truly have perspective, being a progammer for 30 years, playing MMO's since Everquest in '99
I think it is a 'habit' that harkens back to those old dark days of Everquest. It has been a decade of our human lives, and generation upon generation of 'computer lives'.
If that is the same technology being used,
Move into the new world.
When did Google or Microsoft last shut down there services for scheduled or unscheduled services? Dropbox, Sales Force? Cloud Keystone? I do believe they have many more then 1.5 million users.