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Restorix rebuilds your website from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine: it restores every archived page, image, script, and stylesheet of your site, cleans and reorganizes the code, and hands you the result as a ZIP — or deploys it straight to your server. This guide walks through the whole process, from the first price check to a live site.
Create an account
Sign up with your email. The dashboard shows your balance, jobs, billing and deploy targets.
Top up your balance
Billing → Add funds. One-time payments by card or crypto, no subscriptions, nothing recurs. Unused balance never expires and stays available for your next restores. Promo codes can be applied right in the checkout form.
Run a free price check
Restore → enter your domain (and optionally a date range) → See exact price. We query the Wayback Machine and show you exactly how many files were archived, their total size, and the full price — before you pay a cent.
Confirm and let it crawl
The quoted price is charged from your balance and the restore starts. Watch progress live on the job page. If anything goes wrong, the charge is automatically refunded in full.
Download the ZIP, or deploy it
When the job completes, download the packaged site as a ZIP, or use one-click deploy to push it to your own server (see section 4).
Restore your website from the Wayback Machine
Get a free estimate in seconds — you only pay when you confirm. Failed restores refund automatically.
The estimate fields decide what gets archived. They are worth ten seconds of thought, because they shape the whole restore:
example.com, not https://www.example.com/page. No protocol, no path, and usually no www: we archive all subdomains anyway, so assets hosted on www. or cdn. are included automatically.Options can be set per restore. The defaults are a safe choice for most sites.
| Remove clickable contacts | Strips mailto:, tel:, skype: and sms: links so the previous owner's contact points don't leak into your restored site. |
| Make internal links relative | Rewrites same-domain absolute URLs to relative ones, so the site works on any domain or localhost without code changes. |
| Make a non-www website | Unifies www. and bare-domain snapshots into one canonical site, no duplicate-content split between two hostnames. |
| Minify JavaScript / CSS | Compresses code for faster delivery. Skip it if you plan to edit the scripts or styles yourself. |
| Remove ads / external iframes | Cleans third-party ad snippets and embedded frames (widgets, maps, social embeds) from the markup. |
| Remove external links and anchors | Deletes outbound links entirely. Useful when you don't want to vouch for (or leak SEO value to) third-party sites. |
| Keep redirections (301/302) | Preserves internal redirect chains (common on Drupal and old CMS sites) so aliased URLs keep working. |
| Convert to HTTPS | Rewrites internal links to https://. Only enable with a valid TLS certificate for the target domain (free via Let's Encrypt on most panels). |
| Extract structured content | Additionally exports article text (XML / CSV / JSON) without design or navigation, handy for content migration and analysis. |
| Generate JSON / SQLite file list | Adds a machine-readable manifest of every restored file, useful if you build your own tooling around the archive. |
The ZIP works anywhere: unpack it to any web root and you're done. For a fully hands-off path, use one-click deploy from the dashboard:
/webarchive-cms.php for editing content, search & replace, and file management. Each site gets its own randomly generated admin password, you'll find it on the deployment card in your dashboard. Keep it private.How long does a restore take?
Small sites (a few hundred files) finish in minutes. Very large sites can take hours, we deliberately pace requests so the Wayback Machine keeps serving everyone. You can close the tab; the job page shows live progress when you come back.
Why do some files fail to download?
The Wayback Machine rate-limits and occasionally serves errors for individual snapshots. A restore completes when at least half of the files succeed; failed files are listed on the job page. If a job fails outright, you are refunded in full automatically.
The site I want isn't in the Wayback Machine. Can you restore it?
No, Restorix can only restore what the Internet Archive actually captured. Check web.archive.org first: if there are no snapshots of the domain, there is nothing to restore.
Is it legal to restore an old website?
Restoring your own site, or content you have rights to, is fine. Website content is copyrighted by its owner, restoring someone else's content for republication can infringe those rights. If in doubt, get legal advice for your jurisdiction.
Do you store my server credentials?
Deploy credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before they touch the database, are never shown again, and are used only to perform your deploys. SSH targets pin the server's host key on first contact (TOFU) so later connections can't be silently redirected.
Can I restore the same domain again with different options?
Yes, run a new estimate with different options or a different date range. Each restore is billed independently at estimate time.
Restore your website from the Wayback Machine
Get a free estimate in seconds — you only pay when you confirm. Failed restores refund automatically.
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