How to create persistent website?

3 points·kwikiel··2 comments

I would love to pay some fixed amount of dollars to have some website hosted into practically eternity.

Is this actually possible or viable? I know that there are some solutions like IPFS or just inserting metadata into blockchain but I'm looking into something that will just work.

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If I were faced with this problem I would, if money allows, a trust fund that used treasury bill interest for expenses, and a non profit corporation run it.

That won’t really work forever. The best bet has aways been interesting information is saved longer than non interesting all by itself.

Carving a website in stone...

Yeah, have kicked this idea around before; “everstore”. The cost would initially be ridiculous, on the order of say $100/gb or $200/gb to have data stored “forever”. The interest on the money paid plus lowering cost of storage mean that you really only have to get past the first 10 years after which storage is anticipated to be more or less free.

The hard part is governance of the data. Stuff like, dealing with the data of deceased people, how you structure the trust, access resets (after say 10 years many many people will lose access), etc. Legal issues like laws changing around legality of content. The technical part is actually quite easy in comparison.

Trying to ensure the continuance of a human institution seems harder.

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