Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years?

• arweave

  136 874 9.4 Erlang

  The Arweave server and App Developer Toolkit.

  

Given the adoption and direction crypto is going with decentralization, we can imagine some new/future incarnation of the technology to exist, possibly on new mediums.

In short, blockchains don't die. They may become zombies, but they never die. Tokens and profit keep them alive. With it, they just go dormant.

Therefore, I would suggest a blockchain called Arweave that delivers the permanence for your website:

"Arweave is a new type of storage that backs data with sustainable and perpetual endowments, allowing users and developers to truly store data forever – for the very first time.

As a collectively owned hard drive that never forgets, Arweave allows us to remember and preserve valuable information, apps, and history indefinitely. By preserving history, it prevents others from rewriting it."

https://www.arweave.org

And we offer the product for your children and grandchildren:

https://www.akord.com

• urlpages

  6 1,362 0.0 JavaScript

  Create and view web pages stored entirely in the URL

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• ipfs

  483 22,510 4.4

  Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol

  

• ens

  293 1,140 0.0 JavaScript

  Discontinued Implementations for ENS core functionality: The registry, registrars, and public resolvers.

  

* 57709.5 TB transfered

S3 Standard cost (monthly): $134,680.98 USD. Or $1,616,171.76 per year.

That was just an exercise to figure out the maximum possible cost of hosting a simple web page. Obviously you'll probably get closer to zero visits per year over time, and maybe up to $10 per year in hosting costs.

Anyway let's just say $100 per year. Pay for it with investment returns, assuming an extremely safe withdrawal rate of 0.5%. You'll need to invest $20,000 (100 / 0.005) in a mix of ETFs, bonds, cryptocurrencies, gold, etc. That should guarantee that your money lasts through the next 1000 recessions, nuclear wars, ice ages, etc.

[1] https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Landauer%27s_principle

[2] https://nissan.com

[3] https://ens.domains

[4] https://docs.ens.domains/frequently-asked-questions

[5] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing

[6] https://calculator.aws/#/createCalculator/S3

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