The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #174209   Message #4225902
Posted By: DaveRo
19-Jul-25 - 10:37 AM
Thread Name: folkinfo.org expiring
Subject: RE: folkinfo.org expiring
I see that folkinfo is here
http://www.joe-offer.com/folkinfo/
and that registration expires in July 2027. Are you stopping the web hosting earlier than that?

folkinfo seems to be a static website, i.e. a large collection of webpages. I suggest you zip up the folkinfo part, post a download link, and encourage people to keep their own copy and host it if they have a suitable site. That way it's likely to survive. (More likely than archive.org the way publishers and others are going after it.)

I see lots of people beavering away at collections of tunes in ABC format and wonder what's going to happen to it all once they fall ill or die. It could do with a folk archive site run by a trust.