Mozilla leaves Solo website owners to go it alone as hosting shuts down
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Mozilla, the organization behind the LLM-powered website builder and hosting service Solo, has announced that the service will be shutting down on November 30, 2026. All sites and data will be deleted at that time. Mozilla launched Solo in December 2023 as a Mozilla Innovation Project, aiming to assist sole traders in creating their own webpages for their services.
The service generated a significant following, with around 54,000 people using its LLM to build pages, including custom domain names. However, it appears that the user base was not sufficient to sustain the service, leading to its closure.
Mozilla expressed appreciation for the support they received from Solo users and provided a 60-day transition period to allow users to download their website data and migrate their domains to another hosting provider. Users have been given instructions on how to download a ZIP file containing an HTML export, contact form, newsletter submissions, and a CSV file with image links.
However, the images themselves must be downloaded separately. To move their domains purchased through Solo Domains, users will need to create an account with Name.com and provide Mozilla with the necessary code.
The decision to shut down Solo is part of Mozilla's mission to make the internet better and provide people with more choice and control online. In some cases, this means discontinuing certain products. The organization has been offering support to help users with the data download and domain migration process. Despite the closure, Mozilla may have explored commercial partnerships to facilitate site-and-domain transfers for users.
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