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6k per month with prices going up further. Yeah I get it.
How soon before the Internet Archive goes under because they can't afford hardware anymore, and to take this further, how soon before self-hosting becomes untenable and self-hosted platforms like the Fediverse start to collapse as a result?
It wouldn't be necessary for IA to go under. If push came to shove, they could just downsize and be forced to decide what to delete. They're probably sort of already doing that but for stuff they have not yet archived. What do you acquire verses what do you delete.
Even last night we had a power surge and my nas went down. Back up with no errors, but I got real worried about HDD costs for a moment there.
They were the best for grabbing any classic games. Fuck this AI craze and what is doing to hardware/hosting costs.
Guess it’s time to archive Myrient. A group of people could take care of it - split it into categories, download, and then sit on it until a new host can be found.
Entire categories are easy to download with a simple curl call.
Tragic =(
Sad and infuriating.
I wonder if there is something like sharing your pc processing hardware for protein folding and other medical research, but for something like this. Sharing part of your hard drive space, which could serve as a store for archiving something like this. I guess you'd need a bunch of duplication and how to account for people turning off their computers. Idk, just a thought, probably wouldn't work.
You're kind of describing BitTorrent! And it works brilliantly. But it's still challenging with such huge data archives to get many seeders... who has 390TB spare.
But I think I get what you're saying, where it'd be nice if you could just say to the internet at large "here's 5TB of storage to play with on a reasonable internet connection" and the entire universe of torrents would magically figure out what blocks of data to put on your drive to ensure enough duplication for all torrents, regardless of their size.
Distributed, anonymous file hosting. What could go wrong?
That just sounds like torrenting, honestly.
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
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