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by Scoundreller 1980 days ago
> The Internet Archive screen scrapes everything and just saves the pages you see, but even that isn't free or trivial

That’s what I’m suggesting: you run a big screen scrape job, disable the search and any other forms (review entry or comments) and host that. At the end of the day, you have an unchanged archive running on your existing www server.

At least that’s how I’ve kept up old stuff that isn’t popular anymore but still pulls in enough visitors and ads to cover costs.