Recent content by FTL

You've got it wrong. You haven't properly understood what I've written. Time for you to give it up.

You're countering something I didn't say...

It doesn't have to cost anywhere near that if you take a low powered one and for your read only application that would be perfect. Seriously, just look at the AWS site which will answer all you questions. In particular, note the free for a year and always free options. The t2.Micro EC2 server is...

That's confidential, but it's affordable.

Those are the virtual servers that most things run on. AWS has almost 100 services though. Have a look at their intro page to get a better feel for it.

What do you mean? AWS is a framework that allows you to build your own solution.

What sort of content do you want to host in this paid model?

There's no fixed cost, it totally depends on the resources used. Use the pricing calculator to work it out. https://calculator.aws

How about rolling your own hosting in AWS and migrating the forum over? That way, you have full control over everything, including the PHP version. I set up my forum on AWS and it worked a treat. Buying a new license just for an archive site seems a bit excessive to me. There's no absolute...

Will be great to see this in the final product.

Indeed, only 30 days or so until new year now. Still, I'll keep an open mind.

Very handy, must add it.

I know what you mean and I do where I can. It can be hard to see where a conversation is gonna go sometimes until it goes south.

I can't believe how when I say the same thing as a lot of other people, it somehow turns into an escalating controversy with people unjustifiably attacking and criticising me for it. Why doesn't this headache happen to them? Anyway, I don't have to justify or explain myself to you or anyone...

I'm only responding to the insult that was thrown at me first. How can you not see that?