After nearly seven years, and having hosted over 2.25 million individual pastes, I have decided to shut down rafb.net/paste for good.
It was becoming a major time sink to keep the thing running, not because of any operational burden from ordinary users, but because more and more people were using the site for spam, url exchange, attempted DDoS attacks, and other purposes for which it was not designed.
As much as I enjoyed providing a service that let people share source code and other small text snippets with each other, it unfortunately reached a point where I couldn't leave the thing unattended for more than a week or so before there would be some new problem I would have to deal with.
I've decided to open up more of the source code for people who want to create their own pastebins.
If you've used rafb.net/paste in the past, then thank you for your interest and support.
