[FRIAM] scraping a web site

Barry MacKichan barry.mackichan at mackichan.com
Wed Jan 4 14:06:44 EST 2017


Squarespace (https://www.squarespace.com) has a good reputation.
If your site doesn’t require any code on the back end (and I would 
guess it doesn’t, given its age) you could put it on Amazon S3, so you 
pay only for the storage space (a few cents per gigabyte).

--Barry


On 3 Jan 2017, at 21:49, Nick Thompson wrote:

> Dear Phellow Phriammers,
>
>
>
> I am in the uncomfortable position of being bound by threads of steel 
> to
> Earthlink.  Many, MANY, years I go I started a website on Earthlink,
> {http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
> }, and put a lot of my writing, and some commentary up on it.  The 
> website
> creation and editing medium (trellix) was pretty good for its time, 
> and
> there are many ways that I find the site quite satisfying.  But 
> gradually
> Earthlink has withdrawn its support, and now I am not sure I could get 
> in to
> edit or change it.  Meantime, Research Gate has gotten started, and 
> provides
> a somewhat better place to meet the world and archive my stuff.  And 
> also,
> having the site on earthlink binds me to them and their 22 dollar a 
> month
> fee.  So. .
>
>
>
> I am wondering if there is a way (or a service that would) scrape the
> website and, possibly, dump it into a new and more reliable, more 
> website
> creation medium?  Please, ambulatory knowledge only.  I don't want a 
> people
> doing deep searches to answer this  question .
>
>
>
> Thanks, as always .
>
>
>
> Nick
>
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


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