How soon before the Internet Archive goes under because they can't afford hardware anymore, and to take this further, how soon before self-hosting becomes untenable and self-hosted platforms like the Fediverse start to collapse as a result?

[–] eah@programming.dev 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It wouldn't be necessary for IA to go under. If push came to shove, they could just downsize and be forced to decide what to delete. They're probably sort of already doing that but for stuff they have not yet archived. What do you acquire verses what do you delete.

[–] BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 week ago

Even last night we had a power surge and my nas went down. Back up with no errors, but I got real worried about HDD costs for a moment there.