Ask HN: Any hosting service provider giving lifetime instances?

Life time maybe 50 or 100 years with an upfront one time huge payment.

Wouldn't the limit become expired domain registration? I don't think I've seen domains offered for more than 10 years.

Okay domain becomes a problem, but lets say I am willing to expose over IP and not worry about domain for now.

Why? It would likely become a more expensive solution as technology progressed and legacy skills to maintain became more obsolete.

Say some community gathers and makes a "public infrastructure" endpoint. Collects some funds, buys a box for X years.

Maybe later another feature to do a round of public funds again when the life time ends if the endpoint remains useful after X years. But no has authority to delete it.

Could be a DNS server or Mail server or NTP.

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