# Archiving Discourse into a Website

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/archiving-discourse-into-a-website/396731>\
**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [February 22, 2026, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/archiving-discourse-into-a-website/396731 "2026-02-22T16:01:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ricardo\_Viteri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ricardo_viteri/32/65442_2.png) [@Ricardo\_Viteri](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ricardo_Viteri)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2026, 4:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/archiving-discourse-into-a-website/396731/1 "2026-02-22T16:01:42Z")

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Hi all!

I’ve had a forum running for over a decade and over time it has lost relevance. The topic around what the forum was built served its purpose.

I’ve financially sponsored hosting over the years but I wonder what is a good way to convert the forum to more of a regular site. I’d love to change the forum to read only but there are some hosting costs that I need to cover associated to hosting discourse on a third party service. It doesn’t make much sense to keep the full forum going.

Wondering if there is a way I can download the DB and create a static site out of it.

Thanks for the suggestions!

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