XF 2.2 Save my website

[tommydamic68]

Hello- I am shutting down my forum. My Facebook group has pretty much replaced the forum. Is there a way to save the entire site in case I wanted to ever go live again?

Thanks,

 

[TPerry]

Dump your database to a physical file, archive the directory structure and that database and you should be good to go.

 

[Mendalla]

Pretty much what Tracy said. Find a safe place to stash the archives, of course, maybe a cloud drive or external media of some kind since a local PC hard drive always has the risk of you changing computer and forgetting to move the data over.

How are FB groups these days? I bailed from anything to do with Meta years ago now but at the time, FB groups still were not as usable for me as a good forum.

 

[Ricsca]

do not close your site, you will lose years of indexing

 

[HappyWorld]

do not close your site, you will lose years of indexing

Maybe he wants to save hosting cost as well by closing the site.

 

[MattW]

Well as you are currently hosting with me, you could have just asked for a cPanel backup of the site creating, which I would have provided you prior to it being deleted at the end of the current billing period.

 

[Gene Steinberg]

I understand the problem with online communities in light of social networks. But Facebook is not remotely a replacement. There are minimal controls, and jumping from thread to thread to look at discussions isn't convenient. It's unfortunate, and I imagine providers of traditional online communities, such as XenForo, are suffering.