How to freeze and take static archive of your old site

Reduce the cost and maintenance burden of legacy sites, and improve security in the process.

There are over a billion active websites on the internet. Many of these are receiving few or no content updates, but still hold valuable content worth keeping publicly available. Some are using legacy CMSes, or built on platforms not actively maintained and represent major security risk.

In these instances, it makes sense to create a one-time static snapshot and shut down your old hosting plan.

About QuantCDN

Quant is a global static edge, a CDN combined with static web hosting. We provide built-in WYSIWYG and code content editors (for editing your static content, should you ever need to), as well as seamless support for form submissions and search.

We also have tools to help easily shift your website to our platform in a matter of minutes.

Drupal and WordPress

Got an old Drupal or WordPress site? Good news - we've got integrations for both. Simply install the module/plugin, hook it up to Quant, and click a button to push up your old site.

With Drupal 7 going to end-of-life, and the significant effort required to migrate to Drupal 9, this represents the simplest pathway forward for sites that do not have major ongoing content management requirements.

Upload a zip archive

You may already have a zip archive, or the ability to generate one from your current platform.

In these instances, you can simply drag and drop the archive via Quant dashboard and it'll import into your project.

You can do the same with individual static assets too, if you just want to update or upload individual files.

Use the quant-cli tool to crawl your website

For the more technically adventurous, we have a CLI tool to automatically crawl and push content from your old website to Quant.

First, install the quant-cli tool:

npm i -g @quantcdn/quant-cli

Next, initialize Quant in a directory of choice by running quant init. This will create a quant.json file with credentials and allow us to run the crawl.

quant init

*** Initialize Quant ***
prompt: Enter QuantCDN endpoint:  (https://api.quantcdn.io)
prompt: Enter QuantCDN client id:  quant
prompt: Enter QuantCDN project:  quant-example
prompt: Enter QuantCDN token:  ********************************

prompt: Directory containing static assets:  (build)

Finally, run quant crawl https://yourdomain.com to crawl and push directly to Quant. Done!

Watch the example below for a full end-to-end crawl. In this example, we crawl and push the Quant Umami demo. You can see the final result here.