Hah! Congrats, I even remember using the first incarnation. I don't think I'll ever be resurrecting any of my old projects, it's not for want of backups but to re-launch any of that stuff on today's much more hostile www would require a massive amount of rework and I don't have the energy for that. But very nice to see that you did and I'm curious how many others will follow your example.
Thank you, it was indeed a ton of work, much more than I anticipated to be frank. The biggest challenge to actually restart is to be discoverable through the search engines. Maybe that will improve over time.
I’ve also created a ton of automation with ansible to just rebuild if anything would happen. But in my experience, a vps with linode or digital ocean is quite stable in and of itself.
Maybe I'll resurrect my site from 1995 also. It was the #6 biggest site on Austria then. Made with joe. Well the first version was made with Amadeus, a Hyper-G client. pre-www days, when you visited CERN via the emacs gopher.
> I reckon most of providers don't seem to like that.
I have yet to hear any of these anti-server clauses actually be enforced. It seems like the providers that have these mostly keep them "just in case" rather than actively using them, especially since cloud storage and P2P puts similar (if not more) strain on your upload bandwidth and usually maxes it out.
