{
  "id": 19842578,
  "title": "Mozilla leaves Solo website owners to go it alone as hosting shuts down",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/mozilla-leaves-solo-website-owners-to-go-it-alone-as-hosting-shuts-19842578",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-11-13T16:59:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Register",
    "slug": "the-register",
    "url": "https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/11/13/mozilla-leaves-solo-website-owners-to-go-it-alone-as-hosting-shuts-down/5309632"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Mozilla has announced the shutdown of its Solo website builder and hosting service, which was launched in December 2023. The service, aimed at sole traders to create webpages for their services using Mozilla's LLM-powered technology, allowed users to build pages and host them with custom domain names. However, Mozilla has decided to close Solo, effective November 30, 2026.\n\nThe decision to shut down Solo comes after 54,000 users utilized the service, but it appears the user base was not sufficient to sustain the operation costs. Mozilla provided users with a 60-day transition period to download their website data and migrate their domains to another hosting provider. Users can download an HTML export, contact form, newsletter submissions, and a CSV file linking to their images. However, the images must be downloaded separately.\n\nTo move their domains, users must purchase them from Name.com, with Mozilla handling the transfer process upon users creating an account and supplying the necessary code. Mozilla offered support to help users download their website data and migrate their domains, but the FAQ does not detail the ease of setting up a complete, functioning site on another platform.\n\nMozilla stated that they made the difficult decision due to the low user base, which would have required significant financial resources to keep the service running. They mentioned the importance of experimentation in achieving their mission to make the internet better and provide users with more choice and control online. The announcement leaves users scrambling to find a new platform for their websites, raising concerns about the ease of transferring their data and setup process.",
  "summary": "If you have one of these AI-generated homepages, you'd better download and save it quick",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}