Is there a "back-up" plan for all the posts on this community forum?

Greetings. I’m not sure if anyone has asked this question yet, so I will ask it now.

I notice that part of the url for this forum contains the address “memrise.com”. If for some reason in the future, Memrise decides it wants to get out of the forum business (i.e. too expensive to operate/maintain, draining server space, whatever…) what happens to all the posts we are creating ? Are they being backed up/secured somewhere ? How frequently ? Would technically-inclined users have access to them in some way, or just Memrise staff ?

The abrupt closing of the old forums resulted in a lot of scrambling around at the last minute to archive what could be salvaged, but ultimately a lot of historical knowledge being lost. It would be sad to see that repeated again with this one if it ever came to a second closure by Memrise (not suggesting that it might happen, just speculating out loud).

Since I have no insight as to how forums like this are hosted, I thought I would ask the community - of which there are many, technically-inclined folks ! Thanks for any insight anyone can offer. I apologize if this question has already been asked.

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There wouldn’t necessarily be such a mad scramble as you can download all of your posts from your user page.

It depends on how many availability zones memrise is running in w.r.t. outages/system failures, but this doesn’t cater for the data corruption scenario which would likely affect all of the mirrors (if there are any configured) very quickly.

Also, some related discussions on the meta.discourse forum:

https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=forum%20backup%20

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@sifushano ~ thank you for the response. I understood the first sentence. Everything after that was way over my head, but the first sentence was all I (or perhaps many others) really need to know. Thank you again. Have a good day !