This is just a very quick note to say that the R&M Lyrics site has now reached its final stage of life.

While the site is still there and at the same URL as it has been for a decade, it will receive no further updates. Perversely, it’s better than it has been for some time. When I moved to the slicehost, I dropped the old hosting down to the minimum package: 100Mb of space means that the MP3s won’t fit on the old hosting and for a time the downloads simply didn’t work.

As an experiment, I moved the files to Amazon S3 and an hour or so of meddling with five year old PHP later the file sizes work and there’s no database access. This does mean that the search feature has had to be turned off but it also means that will have minimal effect on the web server load in the future.

The same will happen to ask philip later unless somebody can come up with a convincing argument to keep the rusty old thing.