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      <p>Static websites can be created by writing each file by hand or using a tool like <a href="/presentations/sculpin">a static site generator</a>.</p>

      <p>But what if you've already got a dynamic website that you no longer need to be editable?</p>

      <p>What if it was for an event that has passed, like a DrupalCamp?</p>

      <p>If you no longer need to update the content via the admin UI, you could archive it by converting it to a static website.</p>

      <p>Then you no longer need to maintain and update it, and <a href="/daily/2025/03/13/deploy">simplify your hosting environment</a>.</p>

      <p>You could use <a href="/daily/2025/03/15/tome">Tome, a static site generator for Drupal</a>, or use command line tools like <code>wget</code> with options like <code>--mirror</code> to create a static version by crawling a live website.</p>

      <p>There are <a href="https://www.drupal.org/docs/administering-a-drupal-site/creating-a-static-archive-of-a-drupal-site">a few options on Drupal.org</a>, which will also work with other CMSes and frameworks.</p>

      <p>This is what I've done for old websites like our old DrupalCamp Bristol websites.</p>

      <p>That means they're still available for people to see, but without the maintenance and security overhead.</p>

              
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      <p>Static websites can be created by writing each file by hand or using a tool like <a href="/presentations/sculpin">a static site generator</a>.</p>

      <p>But what if you've already got a dynamic website that you no longer need to be editable?</p>

      <p>What if it was for an event that has passed, like a DrupalCamp?</p>

      <p>If you no longer need to update the content via the admin UI, you could archive it by converting it to a static website.</p>

      <p>Then you no longer need to maintain and update it, and <a href="/daily/2025/03/13/deploy">simplify your hosting environment</a>.</p>

      <p>You could use <a href="/daily/2025/03/15/tome">Tome, a static site generator for Drupal</a>, or use command line tools like <code>wget</code> with options like <code>--mirror</code> to create a static version by crawling a live website.</p>

      <p>There are <a href="https://www.drupal.org/docs/administering-a-drupal-site/creating-a-static-archive-of-a-drupal-site">a few options on Drupal.org</a>, which will also work with other CMSes and frameworks.</p>

      <p>This is what I've done for old websites like our old DrupalCamp Bristol websites.</p>

      <p>That means they're still available for people to see, but without the maintenance and security overhead.</p>

              
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