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Anybody know how to get reliable hosting after your inevitable death?

The main reason I'm looking forward to being dead is that I will no longer have to worry about whether some website is working or not.

I like your take on that but I have automated my house, self-host and have a family. To whom I enforced 2Fa for key applications.

It means that if I died they will be in an ocean of trouble if I did not take steps to facilitate the transition.

The first part is to have a paper backup of everything important, and keep it up to date.

The second, requested by my wife, is a tutorial on how to de-automate the house and what things they should worry most about (moving the self-hosted Bitwarden and making sure domains and email are paid for).

This preparation doe not bother me at all on the emotional level but rather on the documentation one...

Tech should make lives easier, not harder

If you have spent at least ten minutes around post-Y2K computing, you know this is not the case.

To end users - sure. To developers and geeks, certainly not. Where would be the fun otherwise.

Well it sounds like, if you haven't, you should start documenting the important things immediately.

It's in place for years already :)

Depends on how much you have to spend. A trust and lawyers and stuff could work well.

GitHub or something as a poor mans might work for some time.

Archive sites could be around.

Or start a religion.

One reliable way to carry on a paid service after your own death is setting up an estate or trust which pays living people to ensure everything stays online.

Really? What happens when the website host crashes and burns? You know, some companies are outlived by humans.. Many.

As long as your trust set-up is sufficiently well-funded and well structured the trust could in principle live on for generations. Obviously, the success of the venture depends on, well, trust.

The trust structure would have the obligation to maintain the website. Provided they make backups, which is totally a thing you could write into the contract (every five years a lawyer copies the site onto whatever document storage system they're using at the time, or puts a new tape in a safe), that would outlive any individual company.

There are however legal rules against trusts in many jurisdictions: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/100782/1/Article%20-%20The%20r...

So your best bet is to establish a community of people interested in preserving your website, or websites in general, and have them run a long term nonprofit for that purpose.

Slow-clock processing on Voyager 3, heading for the stars, who wants to invest?

If you are just hosting text popular blockchains might be viable.

Posthaven does something like that but only for blogs

archive.org

Why? You want to host a blog in the afterlife? All kidding aside, why not just hand over your internet assets to a trusted family member who will handle everything when you are gone?

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