Our Journey: A Project History

From a simple idea to a fully-featured sustainable cloud platform, our journey has been driven by a passion for efficiency, transparency, and a greener future for technology. This timeline highlights the most significant milestones in our development.

2021

  • The Beginning: The idea for downtozero.cloud was born, with a mission to create a cloud platform that is both sustainable and developer-friendly.

2022

  • RSS2Email Service Launch: The first of our managed services, RSS2Email, was launched, providing a simple and efficient way to receive RSS feed updates via email.

2023

  • Solar-Powered GitHub Runners: A key sustainability milestone, with the introduction of our own GitHub Actions runners powered entirely by solar energy.
  • Custom-Built Server Nodes: We began building our own server nodes, designed for maximum energy efficiency and performance.
  • Scale-to-Zero Containers: The launch of our core technology, allowing containers to scale down to zero when not in use, saving energy and cost.
  • Cost Calculation Metrics: We introduced detailed metrics for calculating the cost of services, providing full transparency to our users.

2024

  • Official Terraform Provider: A major step forward for developer experience, allowing users to manage their infrastructure as code.
  • Terraform State in Object Store: We added the ability to use our Object Store for managing Terraform state, providing a secure and reliable backend.
  • Public Status Page: To increase transparency, we launched a public status page to monitor the health of our services.

2025

  • Multi-Language Support: We launched full support for German, Spanish, French, and Italian, making our platform more accessible to a global audience.
  • GitHub-Native Deployments: A new feature allowing developers to deploy their applications directly from their GitHub repositories, streamlining the development workflow.
  • OAuth2 for Container Registry: Enhanced security and integration capabilities with the implementation of OAuth2 for our container registry.
  • New Physical Location: We expanded our infrastructure to a new, highly energy-efficient data center in a new location.
  • AI-Powered Support Chatbot: To improve our customer support, we launched an AI-powered chatbot to provide instant assistance to our users.
  • RSS2Email Redesign: A complete redesign of our popular RSS2Email service, with a new user interface and improved functionality.