Ninthfloor.org project is winding down.
Dear Users,
After several attempts to pour new energies into the project we sadly
came to the realization that this is not going to happen: we never went
beyond brain-dumps of services we'd like Ninthfloor to provide, never
finding the time/will/energy to actually implement a single one of them.
We have been considering Ninthfloor somewhat in deep maintenance mode,
but the reality is that the project is unmantained and it has been for
a long time.
Domain Name: NINTHFLOOR.ORG
Creation Date: 2009-02-04T15:24:47Z
Thirteen years is a long time and what Ninthfloor offers was way more
useful, interesting and challenging back then: there were no cheap VPSs,
no Letsencrypt, GitHub was one(!) year old. As of today there are
better and more reliable ways to do basically everything Ninthfloor
provides. The only exception is perhaps the email service, where there
are few privacy-respecting services which are also appealing to the
advanced user. However even in the case of email the service we are
offering is currently subpar, and better alternatives are available.
We believe Ninthfloor has reached the end of its useful life, and time
has come for us to wind it down.
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We'll shut down the SSH service (which also hosts the public_html pages)
at the end of May 2022 and we plan to terminate the email service at the
end of 2022.
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We'll keep no backups: please make a copy of your data as soon as you
can.
We enjoyed the journey and we are thankful to all of you for having been
a part of it: without your contributions the project would have not
lasted so long.
The Ninthfloor Admins,
Paride and Mattia