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)