The Challenge of Web Hosting Once You're Dead

reifman writes: Hosting a website (even WordPress) after your death has a variety of unexpected complexities, from renewing your domain name, to hosting, security, monitoring, troubleshooting and more. It's a gaping hole that we as technologists should start thinking more about — especially because all of us are going to die, some of us unexpectedly sooner than we'd like or planned for. The only real solution I found was to share credentials and designate funds to descendants — you've done this, right?

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Condemned to Wordpress for eternity

[Anonymous Coward]

A fate worse than death.

That's nothing

[PopeRatzo]

I've been dead since 2009 and I'm still posting Slashdot comments.

It's all about good planning.

Obvious solution.

[BarbaraHudson]

You're dead? Host it on a zombie server.

Re:OMG - How will I update twitter when I'm dead?

[SharpFang]

I thought I could connect with the world of living over the Ethernet but it appeared not to be what I hoped.

Re:all of us are going to die

[viperidaenz]

Wrong.

7 billion people are alive. 108 billion people have existed. That means 101 billion have died.

That gives you a 94% chance of death and a 6% chance of immortality.

Re:I'll be dead

[beamdriver]

Ouija.com?

Re:Forget about being dead...

[TechyImmigrant]

I turned comments off, myself. Wordpress will update itself nowadays, at least for minor updates.

Are you dead? If so I'm impressed.