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A perpetual trust of some sort would probably be the way to go, here.
The cheapest DigitalOcean VM is about $4/month, or $48/year. I reckon, given current market trends, that if you were to offer someone, say, a $1200 one-time payment today to maintain that VM in perpetuity, you could probably get a pretty good deal. That kind of money invested into the stock market will handily outperform $48 / year even with a good amount of risk. A perpetual trust of some sort would probably be the…
There's a lot of discussion and analysis out there on the internet if you search for "4% rule", "retirement withdrawal rates", and the like it you're curious.
Generally speaking 4% is solid, but would maybe move that number up a bit for a perpetual VM payment.
OP can also implement this concept themselves, it'd just be more accounting.
Print ~10 copies on paper as a book with archive quality paper. If you are 25 today (2024) you might have adult children in 25 years time; adult grandchildren in another 25 years and great grandchildren 10 years after that (in 2084). The internet, URL's and websites will be very different by then. Think about the world 60 years ago (1964). This was around the time that 7400 series TTL integrated circuits were release…
The ability to read digital data in the future is a very good point. I recently wanted to retrieve my PhD (2000). It was on a disquette, I found the correct reader and had high hopes to connecting it to a contemporary PC. The thing is that I could not find the disquette anymore, despite being sure it is "there"
I have been mostly successful in capturing the files but I have a bunch that are in a format that I no longer have software to read.
I lot is in folders with at least a year in their names but otherwise unprocessed. Lots of duplication. No effective way to find things I might have lost.
I encrypted some stuff but lost track of the keys and the software to decrypt so that data is now lost.
The cheapest DigitalOcean VM is about $4/month, or $48/year. I reckon, given current market trends, that if you were to offer someone, say, a $1200 one-time payment today to maintain that VM in perpetuity, you could probably get a pretty good deal. That kind of money invested into the stock market will handily outperform $48 / year even with a good amount of risk. A perpetual trust of some sort would probably be the…
This is nit-picky of me but at a 4% safe withdrawal rate (of 1200 that's $48), there's chance that that doesn't last thirty years (a common period for retirement analysis). The issue becomes sequence of returns risk. In early retirement circles, a lot of conservative folks will trends towards 3% or even 2% withdrawal rates to avoid potential for running out. There's a lot of discussion and analysis out there on the i…
... My real point is simply that eternity is expensive, at least if you have to pay up front.
Be honest with yourself here.
This stuff is probably going to be of less than 0 interest to your great grandchildren and anything the intervening generations have to maintain is just a burden on them.
What is it specifically that makes you think your great grandchildren will be interested in what you write today and the photos you take today?
I also use .github.io and https://archive.org/ (offline at the moment)
See also https://archiveprogram.github.com/