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Anybody know how to get reliable hosting after your inevitable death?
by piyh 4y ago
Anybody know how to get reliable hosting after your inevitable death?
- chihuahua 4y agoThe 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.
- BrandoElFollito 4y agoI 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...
- Yajirobe 4y agoTech should make lives easier, not harder
- coldpie 4y agoIf you have spent at least ten minutes around post-Y2K computing, you know this is not the case.
- BrandoElFollito 4y agoTo end users - sure. To developers and geeks, certainly not. Where would be the fun otherwise.
- wholinator2 4y agoWell it sounds like, if you haven't, you should start documenting the important things immediately.
- BrandoElFollito 4y agoIt's in place for years already :)
- surteen 4y agoarchive.org
- Liquix 4y agoOne 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.
- dusted 4y agoReally? What happens when the website host crashes and burns? You know, some companies are outlived by humans.. Many.
- nicky0 4y agoAs 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.
- pjc50 4y agoThe 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%20rule%20against%20perpetual%20trusts%20Revd%20SUB%20VERSION%20PART%201.pdf 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.
- bombcar 4y agoDepends 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.
- photochemsyn 4y agoSlow-clock processing on Voyager 3, heading for the stars, who wants to invest?
- muzani 4y agoPosthaven does something like that but only for blogs
- brwck 4y agoWhy? 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?
- onetrickwolf 4y agoIf you are just hosting text popular blockchains might be viable.