SoundTransit Ending?

It looks like SoundTransit, an online community of field recordings, will be shutting down at the end of this year. According to their site: 

After 5 years, the end of an era has come. On the last day of 2010, the Soundtransit.nl site will officially close. The Waag Society in Amsterdam, who physically hosts our server, has more than quadrupled the rent in the past year. Relocating to a cheap commercial host is simply not possible based on the unique technical needs of the site, so we are forced to shut the project down. The archived field recordings will hopefully be relocated through the kind support of Soundcloud.com. 

SoundTransit was truly unique in that you were able to “Book” an audio journey through various location around the world using uploaded field recordings. You could also search their massive database for sounds by location. This is possible due to an extensive collection of environmental sounds recorded by “soundhunters” and uploaded to the site. Each recording has a detailed description of the place and exact moment the recording happened, “…the characteristics of the location or peculiarity of the sound itself. These stories add another dimension to the sound; one that connects and simultaneously exceeds time and place.” 

It is obvious that many people have devoted countless hours to this project. I hope it finds a way to live on, somehow.