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It's not necessarily just about storage. If old articles and comments are on a different content management system, that requires hosting and maintaining as we
by SquareWheel 7y ago
It's not necessarily just about storage. If old articles and comments are on a different content management system, that requires hosting and maintaining as well. They may even run on different languages or operating systems.
- DiabloD3 7y agoNo it doesn't. You make a static copy of all of the HTML, archive the systems that generated them as VM images, and then put a "this is archived static data" at the top of every page. You also fire every executive who considers deleting documentation for technical products.
- SquareWheel 7y agoI suppose caching just the output is feasible. It's not zero maintenance, but it's easier than maintaining two separate systems.