Hello everyone. I don't know if this is the best forum for this, but I'm not sure what the process even is. I don't know if any of you have heard yet about
Project Spelunker, but it's my attempt to "bring back" the old CoH forums in an archival, but SEARCHABLE way - something you just can't get from trying to browse the Internet Archive. The project was chugging along just fine, I built my parser program, and have about a half dozen people donating PC processing time parsing the data - but then it was stopped dead by my crappy "cheap" shared server. Now, we're kind of stuck, and we need help.
Now, I've started a non-profit Patreon in the hopes that the community would help me pay the server costs for a dedicated server for the project, but I'm not posting here looking to advertise that (note the lack of a link to the Patreon). I came here to ask you, TonyV or whomever is running the show right now - would City of Titans be willing to host this project and this archive? I know Tony has said that he's in talks with NCSoft, but I don't think that this would get in the way of that. This information has been hosted legally by the Internet Archive for over seven years, I don't see why it would cause a problem to host a searchable mirror elsewhere.
So, what say you? Homecoming has already told me essentially "no" without directly saying no, and from the looks of it, it looks like the Patreon isn't doing the best out of the gate. The project I think is a worthwhile one, and it needs a home. If y'all could commit to hosting the project, I'd cancel that Patreon right here and then, because I don't want money, and I certainly don't want to give money to some giant corporate web host if I can help it, I just want to see the project fulfilled.
Can, or will, you help?