Merge pull request #191 from apache/cottage14-patch-5

Create end_of_home.md note on the end of home.a.o

content/blog/end_of_home.md

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+title: You can't go home again 
+date: '2024-07-22' 
+permalink: endofhome 
+layout: post
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+25 years ago, it was somewhat difficult for people to put personal content onto the web, so the ASF provided that feature for our committers. It was first known as `people.apache.org` and later as `home.apache.org`. Many ASF committers have made use of the service, and it currently holds several hundred gigabytes of data.
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+Today, there are so many options to host content that it no longer makes sense for the Foundation to perform that function, and we will be turning "home" off around Thursday, **September 12, 2024**. We ask that anyone with content on the service to log in via `sftp` and download the data they want to preserve.
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+We also note that members of some projects have been using `home` as a way to share release candidates of project code. This was never the purpose of the `home` service. Please use one of the approved locations for sharing release candidates:  `dist.apache.org/dev/` or `nightlies.apache.org`.