Hey! I would like to offer free hosting to the proftpd project and also sysadmin maintenance time. Tell me what you need and I will provide it. I would also be willing to help with the migration.
I have co-located server in Equinix Sofia, but I do live in Montreal Canada, where I also have enough storage and compute to host many projects. ASN200450 Marian Marinov Best regards, Marian P.S. I have been using proftpd for more than 25y now! I'll be really happy if I can help more to the project! Apr 7, 2026 12:30:38 TJ Saunders <[email protected]>: > As many of you are aware, the state of the ProFTPD Project's infrastructure > is in desperate need of maintenance/upgrading. The VMs which host the > project's website, Bugzilla instance, forums, FTP downloads, etc are all > quite old -- this is why, for example, the website, Bugzilla, forums > currently do not have great HTTPS support. (The underlying VM image has an > OpenSSL package which predates TLSv1.2, among other things.) > > These VMs are currently running in a provider's network, which has been quite > generous in allowing these to run. However, that provider has gone through > different company acquisitions; the fact that the VMs are still running is, > honestly, more by luck than by intention. Now, the current company has > indicated that these VMs _will_ be shut down by September of this year, if > not sooner. > > I know that maintaining infrastructure, in my spare time, is not very > appealing -- I have to do it too much already for my day job. No excuses, > just commenting on why nothing really has been done on this front. But now > we have a forcing function. > > The project core team has discussed this situation. Right now, we are > leaning toward shutting down the website, Bugzilla, and forums, and relying > on the existing GitHub repo for most needs. Most bug reports/issues are > already filed there, and there have been no significant forums postings for > more than a year now. Most modern browsers are unhappy about the plain HTTP > website, and update the lack of TLSv1.2 certificates for the forums. > > This all demonstrates that GitHub meets most of the project needs with regard > to infrastructure. It also means fewer moving parts for future maintainers > of the project to maintain, going forward. > > With this in mind, I'd like to solicit your thoughts/feedback on what sort of > things you'd want to see in the GitHub repo (if anything), knowing that these > changes are coming. Feel free to respond to me personally if you prefer. > > I don't have any particular dates/times when we'll shut those VMs down (other > than before September), but it'll be happening this year, one way or another. > > Cheers, > TJ > > > _______________________________________________ > ProFTPD Developers List > <[email protected]> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/proftp-devel
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