https://sdf.lonestar.org has been around since 1987. They have a one-time lifetime membership fee of $36.
I feel like I would trust them more than probably anyone else for hosting a static website for a 100 years.
Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?
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#22Re: Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?
#23write it to a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC or something similar and put it somewhere safe, like a bank, with a reader. why do you need to host it if it is for your kids? maybe a real answer is to pay someone or make some elaborate rube goldberg redundancy apparatus on some p2p mesh network or whatever.
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#24Do multiple or all of the things mentioned in the other comments for redundancy, then set up a Delaware non-charitable purpose trust with a reasonably large endowment. Make sure your lawyers plan the trust carefully with reliable enforcement and position it to be well defended against "capriciousness"[0] claims.
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#26Solve this and you probably have a business. :)
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#27Pay someone.
Seriously.
They'll be loads of unexpected things that come up that can't be anticipated.
Just look at some of the websites that were abandoned in the early 2000-2010s but which are still actively hosted today but that are broken now due to modern browsers refusing to load cross-origin resources, or the server's ciphers are no longer accepted etc. They're still online, you just can't see the content with today's computers. You need a human (...or potentially an AI?) there to intervene and resolve those problems to keep it going.
Sure you might say well my writings are not using HTTPS or I don't make cross-origin requests, but that totally misses the point. Who knows in 50 years you may not even be able to read ASCII text in consumer browsers any more without specialist archival/library tools, just like we can't use what we're at the time totally legitimate SSL ciphers.
I think that archiving your writings is different from having your site active and casually available.
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#28So funny to See sone Folks Talking about the tech Stack when Hosting is the only Problem to solve
Is it a solvable problem though?
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#29If you had the same goal ~25 years ago what would you have done? Are those top options still around or bankrupt, have their prices and services changed dramatically?
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#30I suggest you start converting your writing into short digestible Tiktok dance moves... Joking aside, paper is resilient. Share your digital writings everywhere, then make paper copies that you can donate to libraries. If this fails, that's fine. You won't be around to see it.
Yes and… may i suggest turning the website into a religion… then it may last several thousand years
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