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Because our previous host, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hostgator.com\/help\/article\/centos6-cpanel-vulnerability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HostGator<\/a>, left us stranded on an outdated, End-of-Life CentOS 6 server architecture that could no longer receive official security patches, they abruptly locked down server access, taking our environment, including emails, offline. Migrating our extensive repository under those emergency, locked-down conditions was a massive hurdle. However, after some intensive database engineering and direct server-level intervention, I successfully rescued all of the legacy metadata for the most recent iteration of the website. 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