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is there anything being done to create some persistence? i would imagine a service like this would be useful. ex. small fee (10c) to publish 10kb of unicode, av

is there anything being done to create some persistence? i would imagine a service like this would be useful. ex. small fee (10c) to publish 10kb of unicode, available indefinitely edit: found this: http://www.chronicleoflife.com/ http://www.chronicleoflife.com/ ... but i was thinking something to publish instead of simple backup edit2: probably the only company i could trust to pull this off (one-time fee for publishing static content) would be amazon. it fits really well with their core business (infrastructure), and amazon is very good with long term stuff

adventureful 14y ago
I think part of the point he's making is to take matters into your own hands, rather than trusting it with a service that may very well disappear (including those that you pay for today).
- ojilles 14y ago
  What if you try to solve for the case where you yourself are not around anymore? (Might take payments off the table as well, or at least have 10-year plans or something :-))
lucian1900 14y ago
archive.org strive to help with this problem
- tomerv 14y ago
  Specifically, for webpages there is the Wayback Machine: http://archive.org/web/web.php http://archive.org/web/web.php
jmathai 14y ago
The proposed goal of The OpenPhoto Project is exactly that. http://theopenphotoproject.org/ http://theopenphotoproject.org/ Others are Unhosted (http://unhosted.org/ http://unhosted.org/) and OwnCloud (http://owncloud.org/ http://owncloud.org/).
gwern 14y ago
Any single service or provider is unreliable, and what is needed is not a breadth of services (like the sort of service one or two techies seized by a HN-related enthusiasm might start running) but a depth in time of services - long-term services. Currently, I back up URLs I care about or link on my site to ~3 places: the Internet Archive, WebCite, and my hard drive ( http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs )

adventureful 14y ago

I think part of the point he's making is to take matters into your own hands, rather than trusting it with a service that may very well disappear (including those that you pay for today).

ojilles 14y ago
What if you try to solve for the case where you yourself are not around anymore? (Might take payments off the table as well, or at least have 10-year plans or something :-))

lucian1900 14y ago

archive.org strive to help with this problem

tomerv 14y ago
Specifically, for webpages there is the Wayback Machine: http://archive.org/web/web.php http://archive.org/web/web.php

jmathai 14y ago

The proposed goal of The OpenPhoto Project is exactly that. http://theopenphotoproject.org/ http://theopenphotoproject.org/ Others are Unhosted (http://unhosted.org/ http://unhosted.org/) and OwnCloud (http://owncloud.org/ http://owncloud.org/).

gwern 14y ago

Any single service or provider is unreliable, and what is needed is not a breadth of services (like the sort of service one or two techies seized by a HN-related enthusiasm might start running) but a depth in time of services - long-term services. Currently, I back up URLs I care about or link on my site to ~3 places: the Internet Archive, WebCite, and my hard drive ( http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs http://www.gwern.net/Archiving%20URLs )