[krisoft]

It can be also that some decision makers feel it is too much hassle. Or they don’t even know it is an option.

For you and me doing this would be probably an afternoon’s work? (Maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less)

For someone less technologically inclined it could be seen as a big project. They need to find someone capable of doing it, they need to ask for a quote, they need to supervise the project otherwise the contractor doing it might just do a half assed job or none at all.

Not to mention they can only think about doing this if they have an inkling that it is possible. They might be operating in a mindspace where “maintaining the servers” is a large monthly expense. For example if years ago they were sold a CMS with all the bells and wistles for some $bigbucks recurring cost. If they are savvy business people they might have done their research to figure out if “this” can be done cheaper or not. But they might not realise that it is possible to change the requirements such to achieve a massive reduction in cost. This is especially true if they treat the cost of servers as a kind of black box.

And very often the people who are providing them with IT services are not incentivised to tell about this option. Will they tell the business owner that oh by the by for half the monthly recurring cost they are paid the business could find someone who puts the page on ice and for the other half runs it for the next decade? Of course not! Doing so would under cut their income stream. That would be crazy. In fact they might spread all kind of FUD and sabotage attempts at scraping the site.

[simlevesque]

I firmly believe that if they think their only option is to shut down, they aren't fit to do their job. If they don't understand how the internet works they should let someone who does do the work.

If you are a business built on top of the web you need someone who's tech savvy in-house.

Maybe they deserve their faith. But it's sad that the next generation will miss this insightful content because they gave up.

[HenryBemis]

The ChatGPTs of this world will solve that. I like to believe that I know a couple of things about a couple of things regarding technology and sometimes I ask ChatGPT or Gemini "how can I do so and so, list/name five pieces of software or technical solutions to do so-and-so".

I use it/them as a search engine on steroids. Maybe it is time more people also do so.

[CoolCold]

Up vote from me for very true

> Not to mention they can only think about doing this if they have an inkling that it is possible.