I am currently chatting with Charlie about this issue...
I've offered some basic webspace for the Landships website if needed.
I can even build a new site if necessary.
But wherever a site is hosted, it relies on someone paying the hosting bill.
(as Charlie already understands. But, even the ipfs alternative requires a website or menu hosted somewhere with direct file links.)
I must apologize and explain that I didn't know the Landships site very well...
only been there a couple of times over the years,
and I was confused that we were talking about the Landships Forum.
I thought we were talking about moving the Forum.
This is the Landships 2 site:
Landships II
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If I might be blunt...
since this is the first time I have really examined the site...
....the Landships site really doesn't offer anything other than:
1. a link to the landships Forum
2. a set of downloadable papermodels.
Many of those models are available elsewhere.
Most, if not all, could be shared on forums like mine and here at papermodelers.com.
There is no historical info or data worth saving (in my opinion).
The "wallpapers" are way too small, not wallpapers
...just small jpegs really...and might be copyrighted material?.
The "screen saver" is ...well...nobody uses screensavers anymore.
And thats it...
other than the credits for who has built and maintained the site, and the designers who have contributed models.
To be honest, theres nothing here (other than the set of great models) that anyone should be panicking over.
And we can easily save the models, as a group, on a number of other sites.
The big question is "where is the Landships Forum hosted?
I know its built on an activeboard platform...but thats just the forum software.
Is the Forum part of the current hosting?
If so, then we
are talking about moving the Forum.