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The WireGuard project is also in the same situation, due to Equinix Metal shutting down. If anybody would like to host us, please reach out to team at wireguard dot com. Thanks!

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I guess Tailscale or Mullvad should consider hosting you.

have you looked into Oregon State University's Open Source Lab? https://osuosl.org/communities/

They host quite a few open source projects there. And seem to be one of the few that also hosts for ARM and POWERPC projects.

Saw that. Looks appealing, but I'm not particularly keen on, "We only require that you keep one sudo-enabled account on the system for us to use as needed for troubleshooting." [1] Do I want to give root access to the project's master git server to somebody I've never met, who is probably a good & nice person, but not really directly associated with the project? In general, I'm wary of places with relaxed enough informal policies that somebody could just walk over to a machine and fiddle with it. It's not that I actually intend to do some kind of top secret computing on Internet-facing machines like those, but I also don't want to have to be _as_ concerned about those edge cases when I'm deciding which things to run or host on it.

[1] https://osuosl.org/services/hosting/details/

Seems like setting the stage ripe for a supply chain attack if something like alpine were to be hosted under those conditions

Hey! Just wanted to say thank you for wireguard :)

Hope you find a host soon!

Hi Jason,

Thank you for wireguard - it's been a hugely impactful piece of software.

Do you think it would be helpful to outline what hardware resources you would need to successfully migrate the project and all the CI/CD computations to a new home? This would help people determine if they can help with hosting.

Email sent, we can probably host you.

What prevents Wireguard from moving to GitHub or why is bare metal hosting needed?

The code is small and integrated into the kernel at this point.

Aren't your needs primarily for distributing Windows/Mac packages at this point?

No, it's considerably more involved than that. For example, there's extensive CI: https://www.wireguard.com/build-status/ This thing builds a fresh kernel and boots it for every commit for a bunch of systems. And there's also a lot of long running fuzzing and SAT solving and all sorts of other heavy computation happening during different aspects of development. Development is a bit more than just pushing some code up to Github and hoping for the best.

Thanks for the explanation, I had been under the impression that Wireguard was "done" at this point.

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