Looks like HN community prefer to self-host their blogs. How do you make sure that your blog posts will still be accessible after your death? My late friend self-hosted his blog, and several months after his death, his blog cannot be accessed anymore as the subscription(s) expired.
Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
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Re: Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
#2https://posthaven.com/
Sam Altman uses this.
Re: Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
#3Set up a trust to pay someone to maintain them.
Re: Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
#41. You can't make anything last forever. Just a little while longer if you set things up correctly.
2. Is your blog really that important, meaningful or valuable that it needs to be preserved after your death?
3. Apart from technical solutions, writing things that people will read and share is the best way to preserve what you've created.
Re: Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
#5Since a blog that won't be posted to any more is effectively read-only data, interested parties could receive a copy of that data to be viewed locally. It doesn't necessarily need to stay on the internet with a domain name.
Re: Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
#6https://posthaven.com/ Sam Altman uses this.
Original discussion of Posthaven, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229229
Re: Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
#7If you don't mind being seen in the wayback machine, you could just request your domain be scanned.
https://web.archive.org
Re: Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
#8Posthaven, Archive.org, or Github Pages.
Re: Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
#9Obviously it will restrict the post-death reach of your blog, but the most foolproof solution would be to print our your articles and store them somewhere safe.
The average person can read a 100-year old book just fine. Digital storage changes too quickly. The average person can't really access information stored on floppy disks, and those were ~30 years ago.
Re: Ask HN: How do you make your blog posts last forever after your death?
#10https://posthaven.com/ Sam Altman uses this.
Original discussion of Posthaven, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229229
Six years ago the founder said setting up a nonprofit foundation for the thing was a good idea but it doesn't seem to have happened. Their pledge doesn't mention anything about what happens when the current two people get bored of it or otherwise lose the ability to maintain it. I don't see any clear reason to believe the ad copy about "lasting forever."