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> In closing I can assure you that your creations will live forever on 1MB I can assure you that the opposite is true. Tumblr deleted half their content. MySpa

> In closing I can assure you that your creations will live forever on 1MB I can assure you that the opposite is true. Tumblr deleted half their content. MySpace lost all their content. GeoCities lost everything. Facebook "accidentally" lost Zuckerberg's old posts and with all the money and software "engineers" in the world can't recover them. Startups and corporations that had the kind of money and technical expertise you could only dream of can't keep data forever. Don't get carried away and make promises there is no way you can keep. EDIT: I see you've redefined forever in the fine print: > 1MB is not a big company. This is a project funded, developed, and maintained by an individual. By subscribing to Pro you are helping keep this project online for years to come. > (1) Forever or for the life of the project. 1MB isn't going anywhere, but we also can't predict the future. No refunds!

et-al 8y ago
> GeoCities lost everything. Small nitpick, but Yahoo deleted everything. Let's not forget how poorly run Yahoo is.
- markdown 8y ago
  Thanks for the clarification. For the purposes of my argument, the reason why the data no longer exists is irrelevant.
mr__y 8y ago
While I'm not trying to invalidate your point, it seems that given the size of 1MB sites you could have a backup of a few milions of websites for under $1[0]. Also, while the maximum size is 1mb not all sites would use all available quota so the actual average size will probably be lower than 1 megabyte driving the cost down even further. This means that that even without VS's or other investors a single person would be able to cover the costs of keeping those sites. Well, assuming there is a will to do so. [0] For example,archive storage at OVH runs at 0.0026$ per GB, so having a backup of 4 million 1mb sites would cost 1.04$/month for three copies of data.
dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago
> software "engineers" The quotes aren't necessary. They definitely have a few good software engineers, and this issue definitely isn't a technical one.
- markdown 8y ago
  Sorry, that's just personal pet peeve. I like to take a dig at software programmers who call themselves software engineers.
  - drewmol 8y ago
    I also notice the inflation of laissez-faire self titling but it usually doesn't bother me. Just the other day I met a flying machine service worker who proudly introduced himself as a copilot. Our train handling ancestry are locomoting over in their repositories about this! Edit: it looks like these carcas pits are all calling themselves graves now ;-)
collinmanderson 8y ago
Just make sure it shows up on web.archive.org, then it should last pretty long at least.

et-al 8y ago

> GeoCities lost everything. Small nitpick, but Yahoo deleted everything. Let's not forget how poorly run Yahoo is.

markdown 8y ago
Thanks for the clarification. For the purposes of my argument, the reason why the data no longer exists is irrelevant.

mr__y 8y ago

While I'm not trying to invalidate your point, it seems that given the size of 1MB sites you could have a backup of a few milions of websites for under $1[0]. Also, while the maximum size is 1mb not all sites would use all available quota so the actual average size will probably be lower than 1 megabyte driving the cost down even further. This means that that even without VS's or other investors a single person would be able to cover the costs of keeping those sites. Well, assuming there is a will to do so. [0] For example,archive storage at OVH runs at 0.0026$ per GB, so having a backup of 4 million 1mb sites would cost 1.04$/month for three copies of data.

dvfjsdhgfv 8y ago

> software "engineers" The quotes aren't necessary. They definitely have a few good software engineers, and this issue definitely isn't a technical one.

markdown 8y ago
Sorry, that's just personal pet peeve. I like to take a dig at software programmers who call themselves software engineers.
- drewmol 8y ago
  I also notice the inflation of laissez-faire self titling but it usually doesn't bother me. Just the other day I met a flying machine service worker who proudly introduced himself as a copilot. Our train handling ancestry are locomoting over in their repositories about this! Edit: it looks like these carcas pits are all calling themselves graves now ;-)

collinmanderson 8y ago

Just make sure it shows up on web.archive.org, then it should last pretty long at least.