I wish you all well and will be contactable if there is anything Alexias needs advice on.
Good luck
Thomas
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I have been pinged by my hosts for using too many resources and also hosting too many domains on www in breach of their T&C.
The closure of pothos.org has been coming as you are aware. When I started it I was 3 years from meeting my wife and now have three adult chidren. Wikipedia did not exist, nor did social media. I am retiring in May!
For those of you who care, you can still find that early site on the web archive. https://web.archive.org/web/19970415141 ... /index.htm. It was a whimscal attempt to make a web site based on nothing but the fact I was reading a biography of Alexander becuase my parents were so amazed I had never heard of him.
However...I do not give it the time to maintain the phpbb software (it is behind again) and gets crawled by malicious bots (or maybe AI crawlers?)
The archiving of this site will take the following steps:
- making the site only available to registered users (this is already done).
- stopping the registration of new users
- putting the site on to the domain forum.pothos.org - this needs to happen very quickly - within the week.
- *making the site inaccessible behind a username/password whilst I work out how to convert it to static HTML - I will share by DM the username and password to any member who asks for it before this happens and will keep you appraised of the timeline on this thread.
- convert to static HTML and make an entry page that explains what is going on.