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Putting on my web developer hat: the best way to migrate a site like this is to get access to all the files & source code -- stuff you can't get by scraping the visible web pages. The biggest value item would be the underlying database/data store information. Unfortunately the hosting service probably won't release those files to anyone except the site owner (the missing Alex).

Does anyone know if someone else besides Alex designed or created the site software? If so, the original developer might be open to sharing the original files & source code. That would make it much easier to preserve or recreate the site elsewhere.

Rob also mentioned the upkeep of the website seems to have cost $150/month. I'm not sure if he had access to that information or was guessing.

Seems pretty extreme for the cost - should be able to run for a fraction of that on AWS

GandalfPC wrote: ↑Sun Dec 08, 2024 5:57 pm Seems pretty extreme for the cost - should be able to run for a fraction of that on AWS

Agree! I use DigitalOcean for my personal server, and I believe the cost for a self-hosted VPS with a commercial control panel would likely be in the $40–80 range for a relatively busy site.
For $160 you can get 32GB RAM. 8 vCPUs,10TB traffic, 400 GiB SSD. It's too much.

Honeybee wrote: ↑Sun Dec 01, 2024 11:18 pm Having to work around this message EVERY click - makes it very hard work looking up decks
I wish I knew how to turn off this warning

I think somebody has been doing a bit of work on the problem as today I don't have to jump through hoops as I am NOT getting the 'Your Connection is not Private' message every time I go to a new P52 page