If you’re worried your website isn’t going to be around forever WordPress has a deal for you: a 100-Year Plan.
Typically domain registrations are capped at ten years. With the plan, WordPress will both register and host your website for a century, which means more than likely it’s going to outlive you.
While it can certainly be used to host photos of your Beanie Baby collection, the idea behind the service is to allow both companies and families that want to preserve content beyond a generation way to do so. Some suggested use cases suggested by the company for the service include “families who wish to preserve their digital assets — stories, photos, sounds, and videos… for generations to come,” and “founders who want to protect and document their company’s past, present, and future.”
With the plan, customers will not only get domain registration for a century but they’ll also get hosting through WordPress with unmetered bandwidth as well as 24/7 personalized support. WordPress says it will keep multiple backups of content across distributed data centers to keep it safe, and it will automatically submit your site to the Internet Archive if your content is public. It also has ownership protocols in place so you can transfer ownership of the URL to a child or someone new, something that likely will eventually be needed.
As you might imagine, the plan doesn’t come cheap. 100-Year plans run $38,000 making the yearly fee break down to $380. While that cost might be reasonable for a large company looking to preserve its legacy, it might put the service out of reach for many families and individuals.
If you are interested, you can express interest in a plan now on the company’s website.
