Hi! I run guix-hosting.com and I would be happy to host this public utility tool free of charge. Send me your public ssh key, and give me a few days to get my head above the water, and i'll provision your vps :)
Cheers, Edouard Le 30 mars 2026 14:31:48 GMT+02:00, unwox <[email protected]> a écrit : >Hello, Guix! > >For several reasons I will not be able to host/maintain Toys search engine >(https://toys.whereis.social) anymore. One of the reasons is not being >able to pay for VPS from where I live without jumping through many >frustrating hoops. > >The project is not collecting any metrics on its usage but I assume >there are still people who occasionally visit it so I'd like to ask: > >Is anyone able to take over the task of maintaining the public Toys >instance? > >Running it does not require much from a server: 2 GBs of RAM and 2 CPU >cores would be enough. Although, I haven't been able to perform `guix pull` >with this configuration lately (OOM issues) but it may very well be a >problem with my setup. > >An important note: I really want Toys to keep including packages which >are (ahem) not condoned by FSF because I believe they are important part >of Guix ecosystem. So I guess Toys will still have to be hosted by "3rd >party", not the Guix project itself. >
