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They earn nothing. They still nag you for updates, collect spam, and every unpatched plugin on them is your liability rather than the client's. Taking one down means a conversation you don't want to have; leaving it up means babysitting it forever.

We convert them to plain files · no database, no plugins, nothing to patch · and keep each one online for ten years. Then you cancel the hosting · the domain is the only bill left, and it's the client's, not yours. Bring us several at once and we'll price them as a batch, white-label if you want it.

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The funding period closed years ago. The sustainability plan said the site would stay available, and it does · because one person keeps remembering to renew things, unpaid.

One fixed payment per site is the cheapest preservation plan you can actually write into a budget, and it outlasts whoever wrote it. Ask us for the budget language; we'll send wording that fits a sustainability or preservation line item.

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Every show, residency and program leaves a site behind, and the CMS underneath it keeps aging whether or not anyone visits. The Internet Archive might catch it, but its snapshots are best-effort · images that load through scripts quietly go missing, and whatever it saved is frozen and yours to live with. We take a complete copy while the original still works and keep it whole for ten years.

This keeps the site live where people are already looking, on one payment instead of a line in next year's budget. If you have a dozen of them, ask about consortium pricing.

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Your best work is online only while someone else keeps paying for it. When they stop, the link in your portfolio returns a 404 and the proof goes with it. Screenshots are not the same as a site somebody can click through.

Take a copy while the original is still up, keep it online independently of the client's server, and stop depending on their hosting. Your domain stays yours.

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You want to close cleanly, not disappear. The programs, the reports, the names of everyone involved · that record should outlast the bank account, and after the final board meeting there is nobody left to pay a monthly bill.

One payment out of the closing budget keeps it readable for a decade, and you keep a complete copy of the whole thing yourself, which works with no server and without us.

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If the server is dead, pieces of the site may still exist: the Wayback Machine, old backups, caches, wherever copies landed. We can't promise recovery, and we won't. What we offer first is a survey: we search everything that might hold a piece and send you a list of what survives, page by page, with where each piece came from. If enough survives to be worth keeping, we rebuild it into an archive that notes the provenance of every recovered page.

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