I will play with it tonight. If I can't get it working I bet a Linux guru elsewhere on the board can.

Thanks for doing this, Gris and whomever else may pitch in. It made me very sad to think that provocateuse would disappear forever. It's great that we can offer a labor of love to bring back something that was a labor of love for her. And just plain loved by the rest of us.

I'm happy to host it but assuming I can get it archived in a logical day would it make sense to propose that we host it here instead? Perhaps at a sub domain like provocateuse.Buffistas.org with a in memo roam sort of front page?

I just worry about the bandwidth for all those images.

Bandwidth is not the issue it once was I think. Not unless we start our own Netflix. I would bet our Dreamhost account offers essentially unlimited for this sort of thing. I ran a forum with several thousand uploaded images on it on the lowest Dreamhost tier for quite a while with no issues.

We run into bandwidth issues occasionally as-is, so we'd need to upgrade the site.

I would be willing to donate to keep provocateuse, but I think that we should keep it separate from b.org. It's a lot of bandwidth, and I wouldn't want it to interfere with b.org or be a problem if we needed to separate them.

Well, I have the archiver software running. It will take a while, and I think I'm going to need to archive each subdomain separately and then clean up the code to make it all work. I am certainly happy to host it at least until we see if we need to try to work something else out.

I don't own any reasonable domain names - I will probably put it on provocateuse.grizzy.org for now. I'm sure we could raise the money to register the domain but unfortunately it is coming up as already registered - I assume ita's hosting expired but not her registration. But getting it up and running is the hard part - changing the domain name is the work of five minutes.

I'm currently assuming we will be archiving it more as a memorial than a living site to be changed. If we'd rather try to keep it alive, then I can give somebody a username to access the code once it's all up and running, since that's not really my domain (I've never actually visited the site until today, but it seems like the right thing to do to save it if we can.)

I don't mean to dump it all on you, I just have no time until the weekend.

Not a problem. I love this kind of project and it is the kind of thing I can actually help with. It's nice to feel useful.