As of the time of writing I have 3983 assets created by Paul on my PCs. Two installations of TS12 and one of T:ANE. Not now, or have I ever had, any harm come to my PC by any of them, nor have I had any flags from either Firefox or my AV/IS program regarding his site. As for the site maintenance, it was done by Paul's partner and she sadly passed away a little over a year ago if my memory serves correctly. If Paul did feel the need to step away for a while, even partly, it is not surprising in the light of the death of a loved one. When Paul builds for me I am a demanding customer but I am not perfect. I read constantly and often turn up a new nugget of information which makes me realise that I missed something or just had the wrong interpretation of either a drawing, a photograph or a source was in error itself. In those circumstances I have always found Paul willing to work to correct it and where it is within his warranty period it has not cost me any more. Remember, he is building to what we as customers provide as a specification and if we have shortcomings in our knowledge it is not his fault. I have just decided in the last 24 hours that I need to commission him to rework my old NER Diagram 116 Driving Van Composite (which is about 5 years old now) in order to make it more detailed. Will that cost me, of course it will, but I will have a better model for less than building a brand new one.
I know that no-one has emerged in creating freeware NER/LNER/ECJS/GN&NEJS coaches for the DLS to the level that Ken Green does for the LNWR/MR/LMSR so I have to pursue the payware route.