Comment by winfred | Hacker News Reader

Comment by winfred | Hacker News Reader

Parent Full thread

>Let's be honest with ourselves. The best way to make your content last for a long time is to host it on a platform that is free and very successful. For example, whatever photos I posted on Facebook 12 years ago? Still alive and kicking. The articles I've published on wordpress.com 7 years ago? Still in mint condition, with 0 maintenance required.

You view on timeline is too short. We're not talking about keeping something online for 7 years, but for 70. If I had followed your advice a few years ago, I would have deployed on Geocities. Do you know what happened to those websites?

The question is, is wordpress going to be around in 70 years? No one knows. But that static HTML page will still render fine, even if it is running in a backward compatibility mode on your neurolink interface.

> The question is, is wordpress going to be around in 70 years? No one knows. But that static HTML page will still render fine

The question isn't whether wordpress will be around in 70 years, but whether it will outlast your self-hosted website. Anything that is self-hosted requires significantly more financial/logistical maintenance, and what is the likelihood of someone continuing to do that for 70 years?

For me it's very easy because those domains are also tied to my email and all of my other hosted services (gitea, tt-rss, etc.) all use the same domain. So it's very easy to remember to keep them all alive and active. I've had domain names active far longer than Wordpress has existed.

Photos you posted on Facebook 12 years ago are generally inaccessible to the public; you need to be a Facebook user to see most stuff on Facebook after all.

Also, in most cases even you would have a very hard time accessing them, unless you somehow "pinned" them not to be far far down the scroller.

You can export your WordPress website to static HTML easily with the help of a free plugin.

The article addresses this point. This is the kind of hurdle that makes pages not last. The point is that yes we can spend time each few years migrating and maintaining but we shouldnt have to.

Clearly the only reasonable way is to store it in a Mainframe...in EBCDIC

It'll live forever...

/s

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of punch cards.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com