An old website
Keep an old website online without keeping its software running.
A site that is finished — a past project, a closed business, an event that is over — still has visitors and links pointing at it. A static copy keeps every page answering at its address, while the system that built it no longer has to.
A copy that works, not just its HTML
Writing a site out as static HTML keeps what is in each page and the files it names. What a page asks for once it is open — the data a script fetches, a file another file loads, a redirect from an old address — is not among them, and that is where exported sites quietly stop working.
We keep every answer your site gave while its pages were opened, and give the same answer again: the same content, the same kind of file, the same redirect. That is why the copy behaves like your site instead of only looking like it — and why you can check it yourself, side by side, before you decide anything.
Why not just leave it running?
An old WordPress, Joomla or Drupal that nobody updates is how sites get broken into: the pages are fine, the software under them is not. Switching it off breaks every link to it. A copy in between is the third way.
What the copy keeps
- Every page as it looks now, at the address it has now.
- The images and files the site itself holds.
- A search box, answered from the text of the copy's pages.
- A contact form, if you want messages to keep arriving: they are received by us and mailed to you.
Switching the original off
The copy is served without the original. Once your domain points at the copy, you can switch the old system off — or keep it somewhere safe, in case you ever want to change a page. Without it the copy stays exactly as it is: to change a page, you need something to change it in.
A large site
If a site is very large, the copy tells you which pages it does not hold, so nothing goes missing without you knowing.
Questions people ask
- Is this the same as the Wayback Machine?
- No. The Internet Archive keeps a record of your pages at its own address. Here your pages keep answering at yours, as your site, and search engines keep finding them there.
- What does it cost?
- Trying it costs nothing and needs no account. There is no paid plan yet; when there is one, you will see what it costs before anything about your site changes.
See it on your own site
About twenty seconds, and nothing to sign up for. You will have your site and the copy open next to each other before you decide anything.