Prepaying 100 years to secure your digital legacy hinges on the sad premise that no one else will bother to keep it going.
Like a swan song that lasts way too long through sheer financial will.
Like a swan song that lasts way too long through sheer financial will.
If you'd replace the inscriptions on pyrymids and obelisks as well as the various old documents with their digital equivalent we'd have lost them long ago. And they will still be there long after their current digital equivalents have turned to dust. The only defense that digital has is boundless copies, in the hope that some of them survive. But the chances of any particular copy surviving very long is nil and even if it does it is probably going to be unreadable so you need to keep copying.
I’d bet that the Internet Archive will last longer than Wordpress as an organization.
I seriously doubt even if IA lost a bunch of lawsuits would your archived website be in any danger, as there are many many interested parties (including nation states) who are keen to keep the archived websites from disappearing as they are an important public resource.