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Old 1st Dec 2020, 12:16 pm   #1
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Default Perpetuating your website

Quite a few collectors have their own websites that
they may have devoted much time to in building over the years.

Unless a close friend or family member is prepared to go on paying the
hosting and domain renewal fees each year their web site will crash within
a year of their death.

I have a web site which I wished to keep live after my death, as it has
many different items of interest to a large variety of folk.
It gets over 10,000 hits per year.

I contacted my provider and we have come to an arrangement where
they will keep the website live for 20 years at about £50 per year.
So I live on after death !Biggrin

Of course, they may go bust within that time or even not carry out our agreement ,but
I am prepared to take that chance. My hosting seem honest and very reliable over the
15 years I have been with them
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Old 1st Dec 2020, 12:32 pm   #2
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As the price of storage keeps falling year on year, you could archive your site with a friend or relative so that the information at least is not lost and the site could be reinvigorated in future if anyone wants to do so.

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Old 1st Dec 2020, 12:38 pm   #3
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That's my problen in that I have no relatives nor a close enough friend to do this.
My solution is best for me.
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Old 1st Dec 2020, 12:57 pm   #4
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Default Re: Perpetuating your website

You could also put it in a will that some of the estate be put aside to the maintenance of your site, probably be best that the adminstrator is a solicitor, rather than a member of the family up against the tide of whatever life is throwing at them at the time.
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You do of course realise it's already been archived for prosterity https://web.archive.org/web/20201027...nascope.co.uk/

And at no cost to you for the foreseeable future
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Archive.org doesn't archive everything by any means. I've tried to resurrect several sites in the past and there have always been large holes in what had been archived. I certainly wouldn't rely on it. Better to find another solution.
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Thread titled changed to something a bit less grim sounding.

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I wonder if World Radio History would be interested in facilitating the preservation of web sites. At present they have only scanned printed material, but they do archive recent publications on radio and tv - may be worth asking if they may go there. Although they are not themselves a host, preserving information is their mission.
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Hi Albert,
consider the UK Web Archive instead of the more general web.archive.org
It is curated by the British Library and so has a particular interest in preserving British content. You have the required .uk domain name.
Here is the submission form
For my part I have preserved two websites. I run a linux server in my basement for various home and hobby purposes and I host a few websites just for myself and family. When my father died in 2018 I put a copy of his website on my server. Honestly it has some weird content and just represents a few of his interests late in life.
The second website is a completely different animal. I developed websites for a client starting in 1998. Over the years I did various redesigns for their main site but by 2016 it had grown beyond my available time and expertise. We handed it over to a proper full-feature web design company. My client asked me to continue hosting the old website for 12 months just in case he had a problem with the new guys. Fair enough, he's also concerned the parent organisation in Geneva will one day ask to access the old site. He wants to be able to say, 'sure here is the link', not 'it will take a few days to rebuild it'. But that's been going on for 4 years now. I'd love to be able to just host it on my apache server downstairs but unfortunately it needs to run on a Microsoft server.
Decisions about what documents to keep and what to toss have always been a problem. Fortunately we have institutions like the British Library and, here, the National Library of Australia.
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Thanks all for suggestions.
Steve, I have filled in that form you mentioned.
Thanks for the link.
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