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As someone who has hosted personal content and files for a quarter of a century, continuously, I'd trust individuals or a not-necessarily-for-profit group over
by johnklos 3y ago
As someone who has hosted personal content and files for a quarter of a century, continuously, I'd trust individuals or a not-necessarily-for-profit group over something like this.
While domains have come and gone, sometimes multiple times, each of my users has had a working public_html all that time. Needing to register domains and actively maintain them is definitely a shortcoming of the Internet.
There are just too many examples of companies promising things, often enough fully meaning their promises, only to be bought by big, evil companies that quickly toss those promises. Unlimited becomes limited or more costly. 100 years, I can easily see, becomes ten years at a time unless you confirm and update your billing information periodically to pay for incidentals and overages.
Also, Wordpress is horribly bad at future compatibility, so if you're going to set up a site that can't have plugins because those plugins won't work in five years, why not just make a static site?