Someone down voted this? Archival-grade hosting is pretty expensive -- it means the cost of publishing a paper is the cost of serving that paper (and keeping ba

Someone down voted this? Archival-grade hosting is pretty expensive -- it means the cost of publishing a paper is the cost of serving that paper (and keeping backups, maintaining the software infrastructure, etc) for... ever. Typically both for- and non-profits place this cost in the three-to-four figures range. It's not as simple as "slap it up on arxiv" -- arxiv would break in a second if every scientist started using it as the de facto platform for every paper.