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This really makes me think I wonder if someone could get a business model working for "permanent" web presences to be set up for small sites with a fixed amount

This really makes me think I wonder if someone could get a business model working for "permanent" web presences to be set up for small sites with a fixed amount of traffic per month, where you could pay an up front fee and it will be hosted "forever"

btdmaster 5y ago
The primary issue would be the domain name which, unlike computing power, keeps going up in price. Once you solve that static site hosting is available basically anywhere from Neocities to GitHub and Codeberg Pages.
- int_19h 5y ago
  The problem with all those free static site hosting providers is that you never know when they'll go away entirely, or change things in a way that'll break your website if you're not around to migrate it.
  - epolanski 5y ago
    Well no company can give you a forever guarantee.
flir 5y ago
Some of the big private Victorian cemeteries around London were funded like this. I guess they thought they could get enough money together to create a fund, and run the cemetery off the profits. I don't think it worked out anywhere.
zmgsabst 5y ago
My rough estimate puts that at $300 in expense, to have it permanently hosted: $1/mo at 4% drawdown yearly is $300. So yeah, for $500 I’ll figure out a perpetual trust for your minimalistic static, low traffic website.
beambot 5y ago
According to Archive.org [1], it costs roughly $2.00 per GB for perpetual hosting. ARWeave is meant to do this: Permanent hosting on web3, with the benefit of persistent URIs (i.e. you don't need to rely on DNS for name resolution). [1] https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360014755952-Archive-org-Information https://help.archive.org/hc/en-us/articles/360014755952-Arch...