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Re:Vice website is shutting down by toomim on Friday February 23, 2024 @12:52AM (#39477415)
I've been wondering this too. I've even been considering authoring a web standard to allow hosts to specify how their pages can be archived in a standard way (e.g. which scripts to include, etc.) and then pitch the IA to offer a "pay $X to archive this data forever" deal to the universe.

I'm really curious what the cost per byte would be to make it worthwhile to offer a "host this byte forever, for one up-front fee" service.

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Re:Vice website is shutting down by Intralexical on Friday February 23, 2024 @11:52AM (#39483018)
> I'm really curious what the cost per byte would be to make it worthwhile to offer a "host this byte forever, for one up-front fee" service.

https://help.archive.org/help/archive-org-information/

> *What are your fees?*

> At this time we have no fees for uploading and preserving materials. We estimate that permanent storage costs us approximately $2.00US per gigabyte. While there are no fees we always appreciate donations to offset these costs.

There's some discussion about this idea on this thread, including comments by ?id=markjgraham, who manages the Wayback Machine, thoughts from John Carmack:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29639222

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1473327982605385735

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1473327982605385735.html

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Re:Vice website is shutting down by toomim on Thursday March 07, 2024 @02:36AM (#39626212)
Amazing references! Thank you!
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