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My experience is that it's very unlikely to find someone to carry such a site forward for decades -- everyone I met (except for 1 guy) loses interest after a few years.

Don't know if archive.org would carry a read-only version forward.

I can't talk about /. and reddit, but HN barely moves the needle. Today the logs say that there are ~5800 page views with a referrer from HN. CPU load: 0.07 :o)

The nice thing about "basic sites" is that they don't use many resources. SL runs on a dedicated (bare metal/root) server on Hetzner (along several other services), and as long as the working set of the DB fits into memory (for Sensei's this is ~500MB) I'd argue that it withstands /., but probably not the reddit frontpage.

True, it's still a LAMP stack, migrating it to new PHP and MySQL (now MariaDB) versions every now & then, fixing a bug here and there, adding LetsEncrypt, switching from CVS to Mercurial to Git, etc. The last big feature I added was math formulas (2 years ago or so).

This project really told me how important it is to leave comments for your future self - especially, if your future self hasn't touched some parts of the code for 15 years :o)

Anyway, I'm approaching 50 now, so I assume that Sensei's will be here for at least another 25 years.

Like several others I made a similar tool years ago : https://transfer.pw/

It uses client side encryption, dyn. created keys, and the message is deleted after first retrieval.

A slightly different usecase than the OP, still using it for all my clients.