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Paying for Cloud storage lets you: - Not have to deal with all the hassle that he had to deal with in this video - Not spend all this time installing, debugging and maintaining this config - Have redondancy in multiple data centers reducing considerably your risk of hardware failure

If you want a cheaper option than Google drive, maybe look for cold storage? Or s3 buckets which will probably cost much less than his hardware alone

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I stuck a small amount of money into a separate checking account, pointed my AWS account to it, and now I'm fairly sure my static website in s3 will outlive my grandkids.

How do you handle domain name renewal limits?

I'm not aware of limits, but auto renew is set on all my domains, for the same checking account.

There are probably many flaws with my statement about generational static websites, but from a "cloud storage" perspective like TFA, I'm saying it's cheap as free.

Yeah, I think it’s a cool and important thing to pursue! Just wondering where the land mines are. Did you happen to make a list of considerations while you were doing it?

Actually no. My intent was not to keep my site up past my grandkids lives, merely to show that a small amount of money could manage that (if that money was itself managed for that purpose). But it sure seems like that's a fun project.

I wonder what it'd take:

- An llc/ trust with enough ownership over the contents to host them

- A statement in my will that certain domains and accounts should be signed over to them

- Some executor who is tech savvy enough (probably at the LLC / Trust / Entity) to actually transfer domains, content, and set up hosting.

Given all this, it might be $5000 to host a site for 100 years, assuming $1/m ($1200) actual costs, and $20/y ($2k) domain costs, and a little extra for the execution bit.

We've basically built the wayback machine / internet archive, except with opt-in hosting at the original domain (only the ip changes, I presume).

Make sure you don’t get DDoS’d

DDoS'ing a cloud front+s3-backed html file sounds so difficult as to be impossible.

But again, I am not sure that's correct. Now as for paying the cost for egress, I'm betting they could drain my account if they wanted.

Yes, that's what I meant

A personal account? I think any bank account has to be closed out in the process of processing an estate.

Not if you don't tell anyone about it. I think the bigger worry would be if it was declared abandoned property due to inactivity, but if you are making occasional withdrawals that might be OK.

You're right. This should be in my will.

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