I'd love to see some more resilient options for hosting services past-death. Filling up a Hetzner account with $20k and letting it ride seems like a ridiculous plan but maybe that's the general idea. You'll also need some way to keep the DNS alive, which is a second major challenge. And your Let's Encrypt better keep working too, since so many web capabilities required HTTPS.
Hopefully there's no CVEs that cause your online systems to be overrun by bots & get taken down. Back in the 90's everyone was all freaked out that "oh no, computer systems would keep changing so much over time, how will we ever be able to use old systems?" but today it feels like running an ancient apache httpd or ancient nginx would actually kind of be ok, if it weren't exploited.
For a lot of people, just having a static http site they can zip up is probably a great option, if preservability across the ages is the goal. I do wish we had more planning & options for long-term hosting. Over time, it seems likely that interest in this will tick up. I'd love to see a Kuberentes co-op dedicated to ultra-affordable long-term hosting; it seems plausible that this kind of base infrastructure could port forward indefinitely, and having things like a thicker L7 gateway offers some significant security advantages versus containers or services being open to any traffic.
I'd love to see some more resilient options for hosting services past-death. Filling up a Hetzner account with $20k and letting it ride seems like a ridiculous plan but maybe that's the general idea. You'll also need some way to keep the DNS alive, which is a second major challenge. And your Let's Encrypt better keep working too, since so many web capabilities required HTTPS.
Hopefully there's no CVEs that cause your online systems to be overrun by bots & get taken down. Back in the 90's everyone was all freaked out that "oh no, computer systems would keep changing so much over time, how will we ever be able to use old systems?" but today it feels like running an ancient apache httpd or ancient nginx would actually kind of be ok, if it weren't exploited.
For a lot of people, just having a static http site they can zip up is probably a great option, if preservability across the ages is the goal. I do wish we had more planning & options for long-term hosting. Over time, it seems likely that interest in this will tick up. I'd love to see a Kuberentes co-op dedicated to ultra-affordable long-term hosting; it seems plausible that this kind of base infrastructure could port forward indefinitely, and having things like a thicker L7 gateway offers some significant security advantages versus containers or services being open to any traffic.