Webhosting for life?

[Richard M]

I'm looking for a webhost who would be able to offer me something like 100k-1024k of webspace for 30,40,50 years or even longer for £5-£50 as a flat fee (depending on allocated disk space).

Does such a thing exist?

I'm having a hard time finding one due to the amount of companies who just offer normal hosting.

PHP would be nice, but static HTML would be fine.
In fact just static would probably be better.

[Caspar]

Seems like an odd request to me ...especially since the Net is only 10 years commercial...so asking for hosting that'll span 30 years from now seems, and forgive me, stupid!

Seriously, ...if you want free hosting...then just host on your home connection...Internet connectivity is getting so pronounced that home hosting has ample reasonings... depending on project/reliability, happy to maintain your own 'server' platform..etc! ...but I know you already do...so
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Adding to that...the only thing..I can think of it a major brand ISP's webspace... just don't move ISP!

..or set your own ISP up!

Are you just wanting to upload a site and forget about it?

[Richard M]

I've been wondering about it for a while and I can't find any hosts who offer this.
I'm kinda thinking about the gap in the market here...
(if there is one)

[Caspar]

but what is the gap?....

Life hosting...it's a hard one to predict...considering how fast the Net and its usage is changing...your business model would need to be very adaptive and dynamic!

a 1MB html host...why bother when people can get ISP space for inclusive costs?

..3 years ago we were on dialup...now we have 3MB broadband lines....home hosting is going to take off, soon...

[Richard M]

Hmm I suppose even 10 years is a lot in net terms...back in '95 we were on what Netscape 1?

[Millay]

I can see it being a bit risky as a service to offer, having a one off fee for lifetime hosting could be quite costly over 30-40 or even 10 years, what with IP infrastructure changing the avereage loife of hardware, administration overheads... and insurance costs etc...

strange thinking! if o nly all customers only wanted 1meg of space tehe!

[fragless]

You should try here http://www.webhostingtalk.com/

I'm sure someone can offer what you require, you may even get longer and more space and bandwidth.

Originally Posted by Richard M

I'm looking for a webhost who would be able to offer me something like 100k-1024k of webspace for 30,40,50 years or even longer for £5-£50 as a flat fee (depending on allocated disk space).

Would this flat fee be per year or for the whole duration? (I was just wondering...)

Anyway - back in the good old days of the Internet, before SPAM and the tasteless commercialisation of the Internet, there were companies that offered all sort of things 'free for life'.

However, they ALL (ok - i'm ready to hear about any exceptions) turned on us in the end and changed their terms of service such that they either somehow managed to terminate those 'free' services' or they changed their service model such that the 'free' services were simply a ***** version of their paid ones, or 'capped' or limited in some way as to make them all but useless.

In the same way, I'd expect anyone offering the deal you're looking for to have some get-out clause that ensures that 10 years down the line, when you think you've got it all worked out, they'll be able to squeeze you some more.