Well here I am about 3 months past when I thought I would finish this up. I have archived Model Shipwrights (twice), Historicus Forma, Automodeler, Modelgeek, and AeroScale (twice almost) and…
They all got chucked. Every time I do one there is always some (mostly) significant problem with the archiving process I did not catch. I think I am getting down to the final issues though. There is like one minor thing left to address and then I think I can finally restart. Just archiving a site like AeroScale takes 2 full days btw. Most of the others are a day to 6 hours. Not looking forward to seeing how long Armorama takes.
I have 2 weeks to try to finish this before yet another $200 monthly bill for that server hits again. Hopefully I can make it. Our hosting costs are rather extreme at the moment so if you were thinking about becoming a patron… yeah now would be a good time.
So… I am not done with this yet. As some of you have noted there are older reviews or other articles that are missing images. I am going to be doing a systematic find and replace on all the sites HTML pages to fix this situation and that ‘should’ restore most of the missing images. I am also fixing some issues with other things as well.
So… this means for a week or so I can imagine some serious wonkiness with the archive sites until all the images are uploaded and the pages restored to a version that supports those new image URLs.
So I hit a snag with the remaining sites photos. That being when I did those archives I stupidly had the archiving software amend the image names to avoid issues. But that is now causing an issue because the image location HTML doesn’t match with the /gallery and /photos file names. Uggg…
Will have to see if I can fix this, but it may take a while.
