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There's a perfect use case for this: if you think your company stands a chance of running out of money in the future, but you just got an infusion of VC funding
by BrentOzar 3y ago
There's a perfect use case for this: if you think your company stands a chance of running out of money in the future, but you just got an infusion of VC funding now... $38K isn't a large amount.
$38K is an insurance policy that will keep the marketing front end of your company's site online "forever", long after you run out of VC money and shutter the company. Keeps your vanity up and running, your fond memories.
It turns your hosting costs from a monthly expense to a "permanent" capital expense that's already paid for.
- aspyct 3y agoSo you believe that your website made today will still be a good marketing tool 100 years from now? Look, how old is internet right now? How much did it change since the beginning? How often do you look at a product online on an early-90s website and think "oh, that's good marketing"? I don't think any serious business should see this as a "perfect use case". Just a big waste of money, that is.
- BrentOzar 3y ago> So you believe that your website made today will still be a good marketing tool 100 years from now? No, the business will be closed. It would just serve as an archive of history.
- j16sdiz 3y agoThis depends on how much you value the history. Honestly, we are generating too much information, have problem archiving them all and too low attention span to consume/sort them out
- aspyct 3y agoI don't see the point in keeping the marketing material for dead companies. Why would you use resources on that? As far as history is concerned, a wikipedia page describing the company and it's activities would most likely suffice.