[deanhills]

Wayback Machine is heavily on my mind at present. I've been working on a download of frihost.com and completely forgot that this Forum has to be very big as it's been around from 2005-3018.  Reason I'm working on the download is that Frihost went down (and possibly out) during mid-May and the owner hasn't been in touch with any of us.  I'm almost certain that there must have been no recent enough backups in place and he has given up on the Forum.  I'd like to create something out of it that we can remember Frihost by - if it is possible. Run it by the other staff of Frihost once I've downloaded everything and it looks as though a reasonable Website is possible from it. Challenge of course is it is  a Forum - one won't get a download of the database, nor a list of the members.

All of the downloads are html pages only.  There are 146,694 pages in the download.  It's taken me almost 24 hours to get almost half way - still have a bit to go to half way.  Been interesting as it's been testing my HostUS paid VPS as well - like to its limits.  I've been hanging close to almost 90-99% RAM and at one stage wondered whether the VPS will be big enough.  I only have 20GB on my Junior VPS and 768MB RAM.  So at least figured out too how to pause the download if there would have been a need for it, and then how to resume it.  I'll cover those in the tutorial as well. 

If successful, will post a tutorial about it later.  May take another two days possibly to get to that point.  It's nice to see SSH working overtime - hope it can carry this to its conclusion, otherwise it may have to be an aborted or first attempt only.