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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?
Modify your robots.txt and allow the Wayback Machine to archive it. Once it's there, feel free to shut it down. People who need it, will find it in the archive.
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You can actually submit your own crawls to the wayback machine, rather than wait for them to get to your website. See http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wayback_Machine#Uploading_to_archive.org or http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Working_with_ARCHIVE.ORG
You are posting on a site (primarily) about tech / science news, with some political stuff thrown in usually because it affects tech or science. Please don't be surprised if you find intelligent people not cheering for beliefs including invisible sky wizards, talking burning shrubbery, slavery(Ephesians 6:5, Exodus 21:2-11), rape(Deuteronomy 22:28-29, Numbers 31:18) or child murder (Judges 11:30, Leviticus 26:30). Spreading a belief that condones such actions ranging from silliness to the basest barbarity could very well merit a "troll" mod by a rational person.
Perhaps there are millions of reasons why you are receiving spam and weird things?
Arstechnica above has a half dozen security issues related to it. It is so bad at this stage I would not recommend anyone use it as the plugins are not updated even if the core is which means full security exploit season. Especially if your programmer wrote them in 2011 and is no longer around and you have +40 security exploits and sql injections. Like IE 6 it needs to be avoided at all costs.
http://saveie6.com/
.... RAID is not a backup.