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X.Org / FreeDesktop.org Encounters New Cloud Crisis: Needs New Infrastructure Very Soon
About five years ago X.Org / FreeDesktop.org was experiencing a cloud hosting crisis with their cloud costs running out of control after losing free credits for Google Cloud and the continuous integration (CI) testing driving up expenses
So now the FreeDesktop.org volunteer administrators have around three months to figure out a new solution and ideally complete the migration within that timeframe otherwise face downtime by this infrastructure used for the development of Mesa, Wayland, X.Org, and many other open-source projects. This FreeDesktop ticket is tracking the sunsetting of their Equinix support and trying to figure out the future of their GitLab hosting and similar. Now with the previous situations of losing out on Google Cloud credits and then losing out on Equinix sponsorship short notice, rather than having to wrangle all new server infrastructure on short notice, if FreeDesktop.org / X.Org Foundation is paying directly for their infrastructure, they hopefully wouldn't encounter a similar situation in the future.
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