Legacy Application Hosting

Content Management Systems & Blog Platforms

Mambo End of Life

Mambo was one of the first widely adopted PHP content management systems, popular through the early-to-mid 2000s. Its development team forked the project in 2005, and the fork became Joomla, which absorbed nearly all of Mambo's active user base and community. The original Mambo project went dormant shortly after, with no security releases in over a decade.

Nibbleblog End of Life

Nibbleblog was a lightweight, flat-file PHP blog that ran without a database, which made it appealing for small personal sites and projects on minimal hosting. Active development stopped in the mid-2010s and no security patches have been issued since. Running unmaintained blog software exposes the site to known exploits in older PHP file-handling code.

Nucleus CMS End of Life

Nucleus CMS was a PHP blog and lightweight content management platform with a focus on simplicity and multi-blog management from a single install. Releases tapered off after 2009, and the project has been effectively dormant for many years.

PivotX End of Life

PivotX was a PHP-based blog and small-site CMS that supported both flat-file and MySQL storage. Its last stable release was in the mid-2010s and the project has been dormant since. Most former users migrated to WordPress when active development stopped.

Leafpub End of Life

Leafpub was a self-hosted Node.js blogging platform positioned as a lighter alternative to Ghost, with an emphasis on a clean writing interface and Markdown content. The project was archived by its maintainer at the end of 2018 with no further development planned.

PyroCMS End of Life

PyroCMS was a modular PHP content management system built on the Laravel framework, popular with developers who wanted CMS flexibility without WordPress's plugin overhead. The project went through several major rewrites and ultimately ran out of active maintainer time, with the codebase now effectively unmaintained.

Pubvana End of Life

Pubvana was a niche PHP content management and publishing platform from the early 2010s. Development stopped shortly after release and no current support channels exist for the codebase.

Weebly Discontinued by Square

Weebly was a drag-and-drop website builder Ultra bundled with hosting plans for many years as an easy on-ramp for non-technical site owners. Square acquired Weebly in 2018, and the standalone editor has been progressively wound down since. We no longer bundle Weebly with new accounts, and existing Weebly sites should plan to migrate to a maintained platform.

E-Commerce & Payment Processing

CyberCash Defunct since 2001

CyberCash was one of the original internet payment processing services, founded in 1994 and offering credit card processing and digital wallet products. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2001 and its assets were eventually absorbed by VeriSign. The payment APIs have not accepted transactions in over two decades.

Agora Cart End of Life

Agora Cart was a lightweight Perl shopping cart that stored product data in flat files instead of a database, which made it easy to deploy on minimal hosting in the early 2000s. It offered a simple checkout flow with support for several payment gateways out of the box. The project hasn't seen meaningful updates in many years and the codebase doesn't reflect modern PCI or security expectations.

Project Management & Productivity

dotProject End of Life

dotProject was an open-source PHP/MySQL project management application aimed at small and mid-sized teams, with Gantt charts, task tracking, resource assignment, time tracking, and file organization around projects. The project was forked into web2project in 2008, and both the original and the fork eventually went dormant. Neither codebase has received security updates in years.

PHProjekt End of Life

PHProjekt combined project management, group calendaring, contact management, and file sharing in a single web-based application. Active development ended in the early 2010s. The codebase still runs on our servers but does not receive security patches.

WebCalendar End of Life

WebCalendar was a PHP-based multi-user web calendar with event categories, reminders, and iCal import/export. It had a long run as the go-to self-hosted calendar app through the 2000s, but development has been dormant for over a decade.

Advertising & Link Directories

phpAdsNew / OpenX Source End of Life

phpAdsNew was a self-hosted PHP ad-serving platform for managing your own advertising campaigns, with impression, click, and conversion rate tracking, zone-based and targeted ad delivery, and full control over your ad inventory without relying on third-party ad networks. It was rebranded to OpenX Source and continued through the early 2010s before the parent company shifted focus to its commercial SaaS ad exchange and abandoned the open-source codebase.

PHPLinks End of Life

PHPLinks was a PHP-based directory management script for building categorized web directories with member submissions, admin review, and search. It had a strong run in the link-trading SEO era of the 2000s, but the script was abandoned and modern SEO has moved away from link directories as a ranking strategy.

NewPHPLinks End of Life

NewPHPLinks was a successor to PHPLinks with an updated template system and a few extra features for paid listings. The project shared the same fate as its predecessor, with development stopping by the end of the 2000s.

Classifieds, Media Galleries & Niche Applications

Noah's Classifieds End of Life

Noah's Classifieds was an open-source PHP/MySQL classified ads platform for building Craigslist-style listing sites, with categories, user registration, image uploads, search filtering, and ad expiration management. The project went dormant in the early 2010s and no current maintainer exists.

Everyone.net Discontinued

Everyone.net was a branded email service that integrated with hosting accounts to provide custom-domain mailboxes outside the cPanel mail stack. The service was discontinued by its parent company and is no longer available.

PhotoPost End of Life

PhotoPost was a commercial PHP photo and media gallery platform that integrated with forum software including vBulletin and phpBB, offering community photo sharing with user submissions, categories, ratings, and EXIF metadata display. The product was wound down when its publisher refocused on other projects, with no further releases planned.

Legacy Web Design Tools

Microsoft FrontPage Discontinued 2006

FrontPage was Microsoft's WYSIWYG HTML editor that was bundled with Office through the early 2000s and saw heavy use in the small-business website market. Microsoft discontinued FrontPage in 2006 and replaced it with Expression Web, which was itself discontinued in 2012. FrontPage Server Extensions are no longer required for modern hosting workflows, but sites originally built with FrontPage still publish over FTP without modification.

Adobe GoLive Discontinued 2008

Adobe GoLive was a WYSIWYG web design application that competed with Dreamweaver throughout the early 2000s. Adobe discontinued GoLive in 2008 and pointed users to Dreamweaver as the replacement. The static HTML and CSS output from GoLive works fine on any modern web server, including ours, and these sites can be maintained with any standard text editor and any FTP client.

Legacy PHP Versions

PHP 5.x EOL 2018-12-31

PHP 5 had a long run as the dominant version of the language, with PHP 5.6 reaching end-of-life on December 31, 2018. After that date, no security patches were released by the PHP project. PHP 5 code typically runs without changes on PHP 7 and often runs on PHP 8 with minor adjustments, mostly around deprecated functions and stricter type handling.

PHP 7.x EOL 2022-11-28

PHP 7 was a major performance and language improvement over PHP 5, with PHP 7.4 reaching end-of-life on November 28, 2022. While PHP 7 code remains widely deployed, the official PHP project no longer issues security patches. Most PHP 7 applications run on PHP 8 with little to no modification.