Via email.Dear Uptime-Community,
After the last very successful 5 years with about 1.7 million data records and
more than 20000 active users, we would like to say "thank you" to everyone who
helped the project grow to what it is right now.
+++ We are very sad to say it, but we decided to close down the Uptime-Project
on the 1st of March 2007. +++
Surely this wasn't an easy decision because of all the time we invested in the
project but we don't have enough time to keep the site alive. Another problem
is, and always was, the increasing costs for servers and traffic. (Thanks to our
sponsors!)
Please shut down all the uptime-clients you're running because we can't keep the
domain name forever and we don't want somebody to get his hands on the user data
the clients are sending.
Why don't we give away the project for free and let somebody else run it?
That question is easy to answer. With more than 20000 users, there is a lot of
user data in our database (for example the email-addresses). We don't want
somebody to get his hands on this data to maintain the user.s privacy.
Again, thank your very much for competing in the Uptime-Project!
Sincerely the Uptime-Project staff
CTCNetworks at phpBB.com put me on to the uptime project nearly 3 years ago, it sure doesn't feel like that long ago.
It's always sad to see a website close down, but most of all I'm going to miss that little red box in my signature, to remind me of the time I went 41 days without a reboot (what was I thinking!?!).
