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I gotta sleep so I'll just give some in-depth explanation to cover your question. The whole setup works in 3 separate "parts":

- a MySQL database to store topics/posts
- a set of shell & python scripts to read Board 8, parse it, and upload topics/posts to the MySQL database
- lurker site pages read the MySQL database through php and displays it neatly & styled as any webpage would.

Each of these parts are on my web server. They don't necessary have to be... but uh it's simple. For the shell/python scripts, since my server's in Linux I just have a crontab scheduler that runs the master script each day at 0:00, 3:00, 6:00... and so on.

I *can* update manually on my comp (and I did earlier when fixing up polls) but uh it's more reliable to just let my server do it since it's always up 'n running. Actually I was writing up the new version on an Amazon (AWS) instance just-in-case so there's always the option to move back over there.
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