I think that old newspapers should be archived too. But that doesn't mean paying rent to store moldering old newsprint.
If you've got available storage and would be willing to become our official archivist then you can try to work out the details with Doug.
Beyond that, it's entirely up to him how he manages to fit this square peg of a message board into the round hole that's available for it.
Yeah I'd be glad to store the archives, I managed to not only store but RESTORE a set of 50 year old damaged videotapes and
I still have material on hard drives that dated all the way back to 1993...new drives, because I migrated it off old drives when they began
to show their age.
Maybe I wasn't making myself clear enough...I am not saying that every post dating to the beginning must remain on a new server or
be accessible at the hosting company. I am saying that valuable materials are important, important enough that companies like Iron
Mountain are doing brisk business.
And I am saying that since everything is mostly text here at The Rant, the entire archive is probably not more than a few terabytes and
storage of that size is a trifle for a video editor because we live our daily lives in TB's...always have.
The movie "Toy Story" had a "camera" negative footprint of one terabyte and that was back in 1995 when a terabyte of data was
considered almost unimaginable and they were compressing the Hell out of the data to save space.
Toy Story 4 used up over FIFTY terabytes.
I bet the entire posting database all the way back to 1994 might total 4TB max and I'd be surprised if it's even that large.
