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A blog from the staff at NearlyFreeSpeech.NET.

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98 from 15 Nov 2006 to 17 Apr 2026
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now and then (2 in the last year)
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2026 2

  1. How (and why) we rewrote our production C++ frontend infrastructure in Rust
  2. Is NearlyFreeSpeech.NET anti-AI?

2025 3

  1. Easily generating TLS certificates for the rest of your stuff
  2. A quick note to our queer members
  3. Terms & Conditions Update: Forced Assistance For Obstinance

2024 1

  1. Automatic TLS is now a thing

2023 3

  1. Small Christmas upgrades
  2. Bigger, better, faster, more
  3. Hey! What happened to 2023Q2?

2022 1

  1. NearlyFreeSpeech.NET turns 20 today

2021 1

  1. Free Speech in 2021

2019 1

  1. Maintenance for Christmas

2018 1

  1. Act now: The latest effort to censor you (FOSTA) is here!

2017 1

  1. Significant pricing updates are coming soon

2016 1

  1. Unlimited free bandwidth!* (*Some limitations apply.)

2015 3

  1. ICANN’s assault on personal and small business privacy
  2. New payment features, methods, and options
  3. Upcoming updates, upgrades, and maintenance

2014 8

  1. Domain registration updates
  2. How-To: Django on NearlyFreeSpeech.NET
  3. More power, more control, more insight, less cost.
  4. Improving support and how we talk about it
  5. Automatic file server upgrades
  6. Software updates… update
  7. Post-mortem report of Saturday’s file server failure
  8. Price cuts, more security and recovery options

2013 3

  1. Member support: points out, subscriptions in (Updated 2014-02-15)
  2. CGI/ssh Upgrades
  3. PHP 5.4, PHP 5.5, and Apache 2.4

2012 5

  1. IPv6, SSL, scheduled tasks, storage discounts & bulk bandwidth
  2. Official UK government attempt at censorship
  3. MySQL upgrades and pricing changes for extremely large processes
  4. SOPA blackout option
  5. Domain pricing increase effective Jan 15

2011 6

  1. Welcome SOPA Refugees
  2. PHP 4 and Apache 1.3 end-of-life
  3. Security flaw with login corrected
  4. A small billing error corrected
  5. Member support position
  6. Quick Quote

2010 7

  1. Scheduled maintenance November 22 and December 15
  2. Removing deprecated IP block
  3. Brief Network Maintenance July 20-22
  4. Domain registration price increases
  5. Pools: Arbitrary HTTP Servers, Resource Reservation and Scalability
  6. A RespectMyPrivacy discount, a few UI upgrades, and Twitter?
  7. File server “f1” replacement

2009 9

  1. Scheduled Downtime for Friday, November 20
  2. A PHP Include Exploit Explained
  3. Service & pricing changes finalized
  4. Pricing changes incoming
  5. Small member interface upgrades
  6. Quick WordPress Performance Tip: Create a favicon
  7. PHP 4: Still standing in the doorway, telling everyone it’s leaving
  8. Small change to URL processing
  9. CGI/ssh Upgrade

2008 16

  1. Email forwarding follow-up
  2. Email forwarding changes and UI downtime
  3. Friday night maintenance window for MySQL
  4. MySQL FreeBSD 7 ZFS Beta update & MySQL upgrades
  5. UPDATED: Domain registration price increases September 30th
  6. Scheduled Maintenance: IP Renumbering In Progress
  7. SSH RSA host key changed
  8. Experimental FreeBSD 7 + ZFS + MySQL technology trial
  9. New offsite dead-drop backup service
  10. Public and member UI sites scheduled downtime today
  11. Surprise WordPress Upgrade
  12. Contest to redesign our public website!
  13. Major Reliability Upgrade / Scheduled Downtime
  14. Bug with MSNBot/1.1
  15. Wikileaks: What would you do?
  16. Breaking through the bandwidth barrier

2007 18

  1. PHP Update: Five, finally: fast and flexible!
  2. Domain prices increasing October 12, renew now!
  3. Just say “no” to blog spam
  4. Facility move post-mortem analysis
  5. Planned downtime for Monday, September 10
  6. Declaring independence from spam attacks
  7. Fresh TACOS
  8. Optional MySQL 5.0 Upgrade (Partially) Available
  9. Domain renewal improvements
  10. Interface and API upgrades
  11. We love our members. I have proof.
  12. Trying to help RegisterFly refugees
  13. A lot faster for a lot less money? Who wants that?
  14. Offsite Network Status Page
  15. Writing files in PHP
  16. Revising member support to better support our members.
  17. Where do we go from here?
  18. API New Year!

2006 8

  1. MySQL pricing changes effective 1/1/2007
  2. AWstats bugfix and domain UI improvements
  3. Forwarding sites & URL rewriting
  4. We’ve changed our blog URI
  5. CGI/ssh upgrade coming on 11/22
  6. News & Announcements moved to blog
  7. So many categories
  8. Welcome