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by ivanstegic 1114 days ago
I’m sure it’s non zero. Maybe you could offer to pay for hosting?
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It’s a bunch of static text, no? Surely it can run on a pretty small budget?
While I'm pretty sure that it can run on a small budget, I'm less sure that the owners have the time to maintain the site (a static website still needs to update the server, domain and certificates and while this can be automated to a degree it's still a lot a work).
If they are static sites and mostly text, they could be hosted directly out of freaking S3 for a pittance. There is no way a service this niche and this intentionally minimal consumes enough bandwidth to make that painful.
Maybe you should step up and do it. It’s not just about paying a pittance but it’s also about the time to maintain.
Once it's up on some kind of object storage there is no "maintaining". The content sits there and is accessible. That's it.

We are talking about ensuring that the content doesn't go away, not keeping the service writable.

Yes, I am serious. My email is in my profile. I would gladly take this on.

So, do it. Don't ask for others to spoon-feed it to you, contact the owner, take the matter in your hands.
Exactly. Contact the owner. Do it. Post here when done. It’s a pittance!
You can use cloudflare r2. It has no cost for bandwidth and first 10gb of storage is free.