Rumor that ClubCobra is going bye-bye.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by spdbrake

Alfa02,

The Clubcobra forums have been mapped and backed up many times over the last few years. 8 times this year. If the site closes the data is still viewable by the public.

https://web.archive.org/web/sitemap/clubcobra.com

No, the wayback machine is terribly unreliable as an archive. For example, this thread of mine on pusher fans was started in 2010, and had postings as late as 2017. Just try and find it on the wayback machine. Cool Modification - For Pusher Fans Only, Though If a subsequent owner of this site does not "buy the database files," it's likely the majority of the information on here that does not bounce up readily in the Google cache will be pretty much gone forever.

EDIT -- and, if you're smart enough to figure out how to archive your favorite forums on vBulletin, such as the ERA forum that contains a wealth of information, you'll find that the Sucuri firewall that this site bounces through forces you to do it at a snail's pace because a fast archive is detected as a DOS and your IP gets banned until you slow it down.