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Which is fair enough as it's an old story few here will remember. One of the earlier main X-Com Communities was I think X-Com Apoclapyse Central, the owner went a little batty and started plastering ads for porn sites and his own site that sold essays for people wanting to buy their way through school assignments. Most of the community dispersed to places like XCommand and to here after that. Our last gracious host was also a bit absorbed in his own self interest towards the end, and with something as important as the wiki that we've all spent a great deal of lives on effectively held to ransom, I'm just glad it's currently in capable hands.

Oh wow that's good to hear! I'm setting up another Amazon AWS (hosting) instance for StrategyCore and a few older sites - SC does still get quite a lot of traffic even now so if this situation comes up again in a couple of years I'll have a home set up for it that's scalable - my concern was I needed to keep this stuff separate from business websites as a busy day on the wiki has been known to make servers wobble a bit But yes - great that it's sorted for now - thanks for letting me know.

Good news! I talked back to NineX yesterday about this conversation and he informed me that he meanwhile got a sponsor willing to cover the costs for the next two years. So this issue seems to be solved. I'm not familiar with the Leo reference. Above all, what I wanted to avoid was the situation before NineX, where the guy that was hosting the site offered his help out of the blue, and then there were constant wiki break downs and all sorts of things happening because he was trying to make money of the traffic. That's why I decided to get back to the place where the wiki was born and ask rather than accepting the first person who stepped in.