On 11/16/05, Frank Carver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Tuesday, November 15, 2005, 11:25:11 PM, LeanBackVids.com wrote:
> In my opinion, there is nothing better than paid hosting. If planned
> and maintained, you do not have to worry about about links going bad
> since they live on a domain you own and control. As long as I
> continue to renew my domain name, I can be certain that my video links
> will be valid. Who knows what will happen to the free services. Of
> course I wish them the best, but I would have no control if they went
> dead or changed their linking structure.
But the other side of the coin is that if anything happens to you, and
you stop paying for the paid service, all your media will just vanish.
And this will happen. Even though the internet is relatively young,
and has a young person's assumption of immortality, everyone who uses
the internet _will_ die someday. And most of them will die before
they want to or expect to.
Do you have a will? Have you set up a trust fund to pay for hosting
your content? Or would you prefer that it die with you?
For all their faults, the free services do attempt to provide some
solution for this problem. Archive.org, ibiblio, blip.tv and so on
have as part of their stated mission to keep media available
regardless of what happens to the original author.
This topic may be morbid, but ignoring it will not make it go away.
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