Mozilla leaves Solo website owners to go it alone as hosting shuts down
Solo, Mozilla's LLM-powered website builder and hosting service, is shutting down.
Key points
- Mozilla launched Solo in December 2023 as a "Mozilla Innovation Project," aimed at helping sole traders to build themselves a webpage for their services.
- Mozilla told The Register: "Experimentation is an important part of Mozilla's mission to make the internet better and give people more choice and control online.
- Mozilla might have made a few bucks by finding a commercial partner to take on its users, and perhaps through them offer a paid site-and-domain transfer service.
Solo will cease operations on Nov 30, 2026." Users now have just over two weeks left to find a new home for their pages, although Mozilla says it first notified them on October 1.
Domains purchased through Solo Domains must also be moved to Name.com, with Mozilla handling the transfer after users create an account and supply its code.
Additional details
- Solo will officially shut down on November 30, 2026.
- S ome 54,000 people used its LLM to build pages, and relied on Mozilla to host them – complete with custom domain names.
- Buried in the dark recesses of the web is this vulture's own nearly 30-year-old homepage, created using a mixture of Claris Home Page (which was excellent) and Microsoft FrontPage (ever so slightly less so).
- As we noted last year, it seems not to have negotiated anything with KaiOSTech, which maintains and sells what used to be the formerly FOSS FirefoxOS for use on low-end smartphones.
- Now the Soloist.ai homepage says: "We've made the difficult decision to close Solo.
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