diff --git a/content/blog/end_of_home.md b/content/blog/end_of_home.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a2bdd74a8 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/end_of_home.md @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +title: You can't go home again +date: '2024-07-22' +permalink: endofhome +layout: post + +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. + +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. + +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`.