The Challenge of Web Hosting Once You're Dead

Posted by timothy on Sunday May 10, 2015 @08:17AM from the can-I-have-your-watch-after-you-fight-el-guapo? dept.

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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corporations exist in perpetuity by Anonymous Coward · 2015-05-10 08:31 · Score: 0, Troll

And nobody cares about their websites either. Why is narcissim on a grand scale a virtue, while the practice of pedophilia in the privacy of your own home frowned on? I ask you, isn't nature ready to admit that propogation of DNA via random collapsing of probabilty functions a quaint but failed experiment?