Re: Hosting and SEO for Scheme implementations
Lassi Kortela 29 Dec 2020 18:14 UTC
> The only reason why I use GitHub pages and js.org domain for my
> implementation it's because I want my website to last. If I will be the only
> maintainer of the project, I don't want my project be gone after I'm dead and
> nobody can pay the bills for the server. It's not about money, but longevity I
> hope that if scheme.org is maintained my community there will be someone that
> will take over after for instance 20 years, and the site will keep working.
Very good point. We should take this into consideration.
If we get Scheme.org launched as planned, including the paperwork, then
it has a better chance at longevity than almost any personal domain.
Several Scheme implementations' current websites are hosted at places
GNU.org which are likely to last at least as long as a well-run
Scheme.org. But those projects are usually affiliated with a larger
organization like GNU.
> That's the power of GitHub pages it's GitHub is owned by Microsoft that will
> most likely last even after 100 years if people will still be on earth then.
Two of the most popular webhosts ever, GeoCities.com and AngelFire.com
no longer exist in their original form. Some people have made projects
to archive a large fraction of the sites that were hosted there, but it
shows that the original URLs are unlikely work forever and even the
sites may be lost. We should assume that programmer sites like
Github.com, Gitlab.com and SourceForge.net have a similar fate
eventually. web.archive.org tries to archive a large part of the web; it
may be the safest bet to have Scheme implementations' sites archived there.