Re: Are websites closing down en masse?

[Joseph Turner]

Hi Akira!

Akira Urushibata <afu@wta.att.ne.jp> writes:

> Recently I feel I frequently encounter defunct links.  Links to
> external material toward the bottom of Wikipedia articles often turn
> out to be unavailable.

[...]

> One possibility I can think of is that hosting services are somehow
> affected by inflation, higher interest rates and staff cutbacks at IT
> firms.  If anybody has better insight on the matter I'd very much like
> to learn.

I don't know why websites might be disappearing more rapidly nowadays,
but I view it as an opportunity to consider peer-to-peer alternatives
which are more resilient to data loss.

For backing up existing websites you encounter on the web:

https://archiveweb.page/

For a peer-to-peer personal websites managed in Emacs:

https://ushin.org/hyperdrive/hyperdrive-manual.html

[ Disclaimer: I am one of the maintainers of hyperdrive.el ]

Thank you!!

Joseph