Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?

I think, in your case, it would be easier to keep physical copies of those texts than try to keep a digital version of them up for a hundred years. And far less expensive.

Also, you'd be leaving them a more precious thing. I'd be far more excited discovering papers that my father/mother wrote and left for me than, say, seeing them on the internet.

In that way, your thoughts will live on ...

Using modern femtosecond lasers, you can etch codes as small as 250 to 500 microns. Total Capacity (5 Diamonds): 180 QR codes (36 per diamond) = 230 KB of data.

“Only wimps use tape backup. REAL men just upload their important stuff on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.” - Linus Torvalds

When we go, our children will throw almost everything away. And this is ok.

Information regularly moves storage devices or dies. If your work is not already published / disseminated by the public then it will disappear.

And this is ok.

The only way to ensure something is preserved is for there to be living humans who care about the thing enough to put forth the effort to preserve it.

Information that is stored in very fragile old formats is well preserved because there are living humans who are putting forth the effort. Information that nobody cares about, but is stored very securely, will be culled eventually as even libraries and archives have limited capacity.

If you want your personal website to be preserved, the best thing you can do is make it so good that your children, or someone else, cares about it enough to keep it.