I had this running as a node on a RPi2 for a few months. Very light duty and did not consume a lot of resources. Every so often zeronet pages would go dark when the owners made the keys private.
Hmm. I'm curious about this - it seems that since this is torrent-based, archivability should be trivial - as long as on person still possess the data, regardless of what the author does, it should be possible for other users to reach that data.
The issues you speak of (with a page going dark) are strictly due to things like DNS changes, right? So other users can still visit webpages by connecting directly to the torrent some other way - right?
Yeah. There's no reason a site would "go dark" unless either there's no more seeders for the site (everyone deleted it off their computer, or the people who have it aren't running ZeroNet anymore) or the Namecoin .bit domain expired and no longer links to the ZeroNet address (at which point you could still access it through the long address that will never expire).
As long as someone has the page, it won't go down.
The issues you speak of (with a page going dark) are strictly due to things like DNS changes, right? So other users can still visit webpages by connecting directly to the torrent some other way - right?