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Oh man :( by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/07/2022, 3:39pm PST
blackwater wrote:

Do you think I'm joking?
I'm not joking.


... I own the ISP hosting UF.

The biggest problem is supporting the legacy mod_perl stuff that the site is built on... you'd basically have to re-write the entire front end, or find a very bored perl monk to update the code base.

Basically to keep the ARS active, you'd need someone to take over the operations of the server & code. Maintaining it is a big deal.

Cost-wise, I could bring it down quite a bit if it was moved into a VPS (which we also offer), but again - it's a maintenance/care & feeding issue. This site is still running on Apache 1.3 here.

Someone would need to volunteer some senior technical skill for several weeks, and start... pretty much now.


Christ that's some sad shit. Not meaning pathetic but truly sad as in I feel bad for the guy.

Part of me wants to get him to send me the comics and host it here but as he alludes to, hosting something like that is not insignificant (and I bet there's metadata with each comic that you wouldn't get if you just put the .jpgs up).

I got a note that our host is ready and rearing to go with PHP 8.1!!!!! which means they are going to force me into moving there in three years and I'll lose a weekend figuring out all the shit that got changed for no reason.
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