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2025-02-04 |
Alpine and freedesktop.org seeking new server hosting |
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Some of our readers may be familiar with a company called Equinix a company which provides digital infrastructure and hosting. Even if you are not familiar with the company, you've probably heard of a few of the open source projects which are hosted on their infrastructure: Alpine Linux and freedesktop.org, the latter maintains many projects such as X.Org, Wayland, PulseAudio, and PipeWire. Unfortunately, for these projects, Equinix is ending their hosting agreement. A post on the Alpine website explains: "We are deeply grateful to Equinix Metal (formerly Packet.net) for their longstanding support, which has been essential to Alpine Linux’s ecosystem. However, with Equinix sunsetting their bare-metal hosting service, this critical support will soon end. Their contributions have been invaluable, and we thank them for helping keep Alpine Linux reliable and efficient. This change poses a significant challenge, as it impacts key infrastructure hosted with Equinix. To ensure continuity, we must now find alternative hosting solutions." The freedesktop.org website shares a similar statement.
Both projects require many terabytes (TB) of disk space and hundreds of terabytes of bandwidth per month and are putting together migration plans while asking for donations from their respective communities. It's a common scenario in the open source world, where projects run on millions of computers struggle to raise enough funds to keep their servers running. |
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