Yeah, ouch. There are hard cash costs to keeping a legacy website up and running. Server costs, domain costs, security worries -- it's a bottomless pit.
The internet can remember it for you, wholesale. Woo! If you pay.
And so much can be lost. The internet can forget it for you, wholesale. Click, click, click, and it's gone forever.
Tip o' the hat to Doug Ritter for keeping this forum alive, even if only for the evergreen knowledge it contains.