# Looking for advice on how to establish facts from logs

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-advice-on-how-to-establish-facts-from-logs/402581
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**Created:** [9 mei 2026 om 23:12 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-advice-on-how-to-establish-facts-from-logs/402581 "2026-05-09T23:12:01Z")
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### Author: ![Andrew\_Rowe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/andrew_rowe/32/445877_2.png) [@Andrew\_Rowe](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Andrew_Rowe)
#### Post date: [10 mei 2026 om 00:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/looking-for-advice-on-how-to-establish-facts-from-logs/402581/2 "2026-05-10T00:35:44Z")

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who hosts the forum? Is it self-hosted or hosted by a hosting provider? This piece of information for the old forum and the new forum would be helpful.

So the old forum was a Discourse forum and the new forum is a custom made forum?

Three years is a long time to preserve the server logs and the logs from the old forum probably got deleted when the forum got migrated

just guessing

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