Open source software hosting and cloud computing provider Fosshost will no longer be providing services as it reaches end of life.
Fosshost project volunteers announced the development this weekend following months of difficulties in reaching the leadership including the CEO.
Users are being urged to immediately backup their data and migrate to alternative hosting platforms.
UK-based non-profit Fosshost has been providing services to several
high profile open source projects like GNOME, Armbian, Debian and Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) completely free of charge. But that will soon change as the project reaches end of life.
As of this week various
fosshost.org links are are returning 404 (not found) error messages as the service is on its way out.
"At this time, Fosshost is deeply sorry to announce we are no longer able to continue offering our services," states a
notice seen today by BleepingComputer on fosshost.org website.
"Due to circumstances outside of the control of the Fosshost volunteers, we are now in a situation where we cannot guarantee our servers will stay online, and in fact expect them to go offline shortly."
"Because of this, we strongly recommend all Fosshost tenants to backup their data immediately, and migrate elsewhere as soon as possible."
The vague notice and the tweet generated much confusion among the community members who were unable to understand the real reason behind Fosshost's shut down.
"We are unable to pay for co-location costs, and that's why our servers will go offline as [Thomas Markey our CEO is unreachable," a
purported Fosshost volunteer is seen commenting on a YCombinator Hacker News post.
The commentator suggests that Markey, who has been unresponsive over the past six months, is the only person with access to bank accounts with funds required to operate Fosshost.
