Thursday, January 18, 2018

weborienteer.com is down

Unfortunately, the site weborienteer.com is not available anymore. It was hosted on OpenShift's free plan for years, but since OpenShift 3 was introduced, the service became very unstable and problematic. And even worse, yesterday I received a message from OpenShift with a postfactum statement that my "access has been removed due to a prolonged period of inactivity". All the data - the pod, the storage, the settings - have gone. This is just not true that there was a period of inactivy since the site was in use every day. So it's absolutely clear to me that RedHat just do not want to support and faithfully provide the new free plan (OpenShift Starter). It makes no sense to restore the site again and again, as far as they can kill it without a prior notice and with no reason.

I do not make money from weborienteer.com, so from very beginning it was and will be intentionally bound to free hosting. On the other hand, I don't want to use a free hosting populated with bulky ads. Until I find a replacement for spoiled OpenShift, the site is down.

Sorry for the inconvenience. This is not my fault. In the world where money rules - it's hard to maintain non-commercial, unpaid, altruistic projects.