In the mid 90's, I was a member of a blacksmithing site. The owner of that site was...how should I put this? Well, lets just say he was unpredictable. He got a wild hair up his you know what and deleted the whole thing. Our members were a small group of people and we were able to piece the forum back together, but it took a lot of work. That same turkey joined us a year later, but didn't find us a very forgiving group, so he didn't stick around. Point of story is, from then on, I started taking snapshots of any info I thought was valuable and these days, I create a PDF of any web page I really like. That way, hopefully I will always have it.