[Roritharr]

I wonder what amount of money would be sufficient to create the digital equivalent of a foundation to ensure the uptime of a website/project. It would be kinda cool to put away a few grand to ensure something stays up "forever".

[throwawayjava]

The price of forever ranges from a few hundred to millions depending on how resilient you want to be.

In reality, it would probably be more effective to dedicate nearly $0 to infrastructure and $N,000.00 to an endowment for 1-3 hours of engineering time each year.

Figuring out how to host a static site for free and moving the site to that service requires almost no time for a competent engineer. But finding a solution that is guaranteed to exist in 100 years with zero human intervention would probably cost millions...

[Roritharr]

That's along the lines of what I was thinking. The www.mywebsite.com foundation, worth a whopping 10k, invests it's 300$ annual interest in updating the hosting for www.mywebsite.com.

[exikyut]

Well, Network Solutions seems(?) to offer 100-year domain registration for $1k ($999).

Thinking about it, a holistic solution to this kind of problem would [categorically need to] be extremely expensive in order to ratelimit demand. Because it's not just "host this for me for a while" with an implicit sort of "maybe let it fall over one day and see if I yell at you" - that 2nd bit is completely removed, and the expectation is 100.0% (amortized, aggregate) uptime... indefinitely.

It's interesting how not even graves last forever. They decay over time (hundreds of years). Not all are maintained.

What sort of "forever" are you talking about? "Most Important Thing™ when the paperclip maximisers take over"?

[Cthulhu_]

Would just having a pre-paid credit card work? I guess not, also given how every once in a while you may need to accept new terms and conditions.