Farewell to Wowbagger - End of an Era for boost.org

Dear Boost developers and community,

On behalf of the Fiscal Sponsorship Committee, I'm writing today with a mix
of gratitude and nostalgia to share some news: after 15 years of faithful,
but rocky, service, wowbagger - the server that hosted boost.org,
lists.boost.org, and subversion - is being mothballed.
For many of us, it was simply there - one of those invisible pillars that
kept our community connected and our work accessible to the world. It
deserves a proper send-off.

What happened: Rackspace recently notified customers that pricing on their
legacy cloud platform is increasing significantly - effectively doubling -
as they wind down the previous generation of cloud servers in favor of
their next-generation platform. Migration is not automatic. After
consulting with Marshall and others, we made the decision to terminate our
Rackspace instances rather than absorb the increased costs or undertake a
manual migration to a platform we no longer need.

What this means: We (i.e. Sam Darwin) have stopped wowbagger for now.
File-level backups and disk snapshots are in hand. After another week, the
server will be deleted. This is purely a housekeeping matter - boost.org
and lists.boost.org are already running on new, upgraded hardware and have
been for some time. The old machine had been kept around as a reference for
comparing web pages between the old and new sites, but the Rackspace
pricing change simply accelerates a retirement that was already overdue.

Nothing changes for us. The website and mailing lists continue to operate
normally on their new home.

Still, we wanted to take a moment to honor wowbagger's long run. 15 years
is a remarkable tenure for any server, and this one carried the public face
of Boost for all of that time. To everyone who set it up, maintained it,
patched it at odd hours, and kept it humming along - thank you. Your work
mattered more than most people ever realized.

Rest well, wowbagger. You've earned it.

Warm regards, Boost Fiscal Sponsorship Committee

(Ion Gaztañaga, Joaquín M López Muñoz, René Ferdinand Rivera Morell)
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