![]() Is an ongoing conversation about media of all kinds. Something like SiteSucker makes a lot more sense than cloning a site for helping folks archive their work so that it can be accessible for the long term, and building that feature into Reclaim Hosting’s services would be pretty cool. ![]() All those database driven sites need to be updated, maintained, and protected from hackers and spam. One option is cloning a site in Installatron on Reclaim Hosting, but that requires a dynamic database for a static copy, why not just suck that site? And while cloning a site using Installatron is cheaper and easier given it’s built into Reclaim offerings, it’s not all that sustainable for us or them. And to reinforce that point, right after I finished sucking this site, a faculty member submitted a support ticket asking the best way to archive a specific moment of a site so that they could compare it with future iterations. I can see more than a few uses for my own sites, not to mention the many others I help support. I don’t pay for that many applications, but this is one that was very much worth the $5 for me. Crazy how simple that was, it makes me want to start working my way through a bunch of old WordPress sites I have and start retiring them to HTML. I uploaded the entire archive to their Reclaim Hosting account and pointed the domain at our nameservers and that was that. I just added the URL as illustrated above and 3 minutes later the entire site was downloaded as static HTML pages. Given this was a custom web tool and they’re planning on building a new site after the move, why not simply package it up with SiteSucker which will provide them an interim home as well as an archive? I was prepared to tell the Reclaimer the migration was a no-go, but then I remembered SiteSucker. There was no export tool (why you gotta be like that?) and I was not going to copy and paste scores of HTML pages. I finally decided to try it when I was migrating a website built with another host’s custom webpage builder. The app costs $4.99 and takes any URL and packages up the entire site (including images and media) into local static HTML files. That said, today I had an occasion to use the Mac tool SiteSucker Tim Owens has been raving about for a while. I share Alan Levine’s passion for trying to archive as much of the work I’ve done online as possible, I’m just not nearly as good at it. I had followed with great interest the discussion on the Reclaim Hosting Community site about archiving a dynamic, database driven site as static HTML files.
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