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I've been wondering this too. I've even been considering authoring a web standard to allow hosts to specify how their pages can be archived in a standard way (
by toomim 3y ago
I've been wondering this too. I've even been considering authoring a web standard to allow hosts to specify how their pages can be archived in a standard way (e.g. which scripts to include, etc.) and then pitch the IA to offer a "pay $X to archive this data forever" deal to the universe.
I'm really curious what the cost per byte would be to make it worthwhile to offer a "host this byte forever, for one up-front fee" service.
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- Intralexical 3y ago> I'm really curious what the cost per byte would be to make it worthwhile to offer a "host this byte forever, for one up-front fee" service. https://help.archive.org/help/archive-org-information/ https://help.archive.org/help/archive-org-information/ > *What are your fees?* > At this time we have no fees for uploading and preserving materials. We estimate that permanent storage costs us approximately $2.00US per gigabyte. While there are no fees we always appreciate donations to offset these costs. There's some discussion about this idea on this thread, including comments by ?id=markjgraham, who manages the Wayback Machine, thoughts from John Carmack: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29639222 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29639222 https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1473327982605385735 https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1473327982605385735 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1473327982605385735.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1473327982605385735.html
- toomim 3y agoAmazing references! Thank you!