[prmoustache]

What makes you think the owner of this site maintain a server?

A quick look at the ip show that it is owned by hostgator.com, a web hosting company.

The key here is renting the domain indefinitely and moving to a new web hosting company if one goes bust.

[varenc]

I think the challenge is also caring enough to keep paying money to host a site for no clear purpose or gain. And moving hosting providers since guessing hostgator didn't exist back then. Based on the modified times on some assets on the site I'd guess it was last moved in Oct 2015. So glad they kept it up!

[userbinator]

HostGator has been around for a long time too - since 2002.