Not renewing expiring privpage.net domain on 22th April 2022

[j8r]

The privpage.net domain will expire on 22th April 2022.

I won't renew because I have no incentive, nor really want to continue spending more time and money to maintain for free the server. I have moved on other projects.

Thanks to all users! The project turned out to work quite well. I hope GitHub will support this feature natively in the future, for free and everyone. Of course it remains possible self-host this project on your server.

[charlielito]

Did you already shut down the server?

[j8r]

The server is indeed no longer functional, the process has crashed. I think that's because the tokens are no longer valid.
The certificate will have expired in a week anyway,

[MPJHorner]

Oh no my documentation 😢

Anyone got workaround or alternative service?

[charlielito]

Do you have any guide on how to self-host this? I am trying locally without success just compiling the code and running the server with defaults

[j8r]

You'll need:

• A GitHub App or OAuth App. Can be created in your account or in your organization in developer settings.
• Get the oauth tokens and set the environment variables (see the README.md).
• give the permissions to access your repositories
• a reverse proxy, like Caddy, to have https
• crystal to compile the project.

I think you should be good after that.

[yosev]

I developed a selfhosted alternative with a similar idea as this service is shut down - i hope it's okay to post that here.
https://github.com/john-dev/private-ghp

[B3QL]

Thanks @j8r for developing the project and providing the infrastructure!

[KorigamiK]

It was a pleasure using this service. Fun times 🥇

[amielnoyp]

Hi ,
Is it possible to use it now?
Or it's finnaly not not possible?

[KorigamiK]

Hi ,
Is it possible to use it now?
Or it's finnaly not not possible?

You have the source code so you can host it yourself, however the domain is still not renewing.

[charlielito]

I developed a selfhosted alternative with a similar idea as this service is shut down - i hope it's okay to post that here. https://github.com/john-dev/private-ghp

I've been using this alternative for the last year in it is working without problems

[j8r]

You can self-host both projects, as you prefer.