>>55914670Sorry to hear about the archive trouble. It took a really long time the few times I didn't even have the original image, and need to look from page to page with a vague memory of the contents of an OP. It's even worse how a lot of archivers are long gone, like the Yotsuba archivers like easymodo and green oval.
I dunno how Yotsuba or FoolFuuka archivers work, but unless they've fucked up really badly, searching really shouldn't strain servers, since those are designed for worse things. I remember reading something about how some of them "aren't indexed" which makes no sense to me, since they save the post numbers. I'd have thought the biggest hurdle would be storage and bandwidth for saving and browsing, which you'd have to worry a lot about if you're planning on hosting your own.