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Better to set it for two months.
by paublyrne 11y ago
Better to set it for two months.
- SapphireSun 11y agoWhy not six or a year? It'll be very hard to screw that up and you can Hari Seldon your friends and relatives.
- XorNot 11y agoExcept if you forget when it fires. These sorts of things aren't done because doing them right is actually very very hard.
- kiiski 11y agoIt could of course start sending a countdown to your email a month before going off.
- developer1 11y agoYou also have to be sure the machine you're hosting this on won't be taken down if you really die and aren't around to manage/pay for it anymore. Server in your closet? The plug will be pulled long before 6 months pass after you're gone. Server in a data center? You can't be paying for that monthly, as chances are your credit card will be cancelled and your machine will be shut down for non-payment before your 6 month deadline. Also, hardware failure makes it a possibility that your server will not survive 6 months uptime anyway. Basically, dead man's switch is not even remotely guaranteed to work.
- SapphireSun 11y agoJust put that server payment in your will and tell your executor to not reveal its existence. Alternatively, pay on an annual basis.