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0 pointseesmith7y ago0 comments

You wrote "At some point [GitHub] will go down like every other project does." Doesn't that mean you don't expect any good free service to stand the test of time?

Just how long do you want?

Perhaps if you pay for a service it's more likely that it will last?

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3dfan7y ago· 1 in thread

I don't expect any service to stand the test of time.

So I want to spread my code across multiple services. And when one goes down in 10 years or so, clone it from one of the others to yet another one.

Paying is not an option. Because I want a hassle free solution. Paid services would be prone to even more issues. For example when I change my credit card I would have to think about updating the CC information. At some point Credit Cards might go out of fashion. And the provider and I might not have a common payment channel anymore. Or the provier raises their fees to a level that I find too expensive.

I want a solution that I can set up and then forget about it for as long as possible.

eesmithOP7y ago

Then what's wrong with the three suggestions that aaronbrethorst gave?

I'll add to my question of "Just how long do you want?" - how much data do you want to store, and how often do you want updates?

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