About this:

>And they charge $5 per month, so >the sustainability is more clear.

In 1996, Geocities began offering a deal: pay $4.95 a month and no ads will be shown on your site, and you get to use your own domain for your website. I signed up immediately. 3 year later, Geocities was acquired by Yahoo. 10 years later, Geocities was closed:

http://geocities.yahoo.com/index.php

There is nothing really permanent about any of these services. Ma Bell may have offered a reliable phone service for almost 100 years, but in the era of the Internet the half-life of consumer sites tends to be much shorter.

Chances are I have your site on http://reocities.com/ just append your old homestead and it should pop up.

There are many others besides that did stuff like this so check out the archive team, archive.org and so on.

Aren't those Geocities Plus sites still up?

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:geocities.com

I can't get to the site so I'm not sure what the details are but if the following aren't in place then those are empty promises.

- Open source the code

- Allow users to supply their own domain

- An API (not "coming soon...")

If all those are in place then great :)

[edit] Looks like the site doesn't support any of the 3 - facepalm

Both 2 and 3 are certainly in the plans. How could we not have an API? And custom domains?

Brett and I have discussed #1 and it's an option we want to keep on the table. First priority is to build and create a great hosted experience, however.

That's good to hear. You would be surprised how many services (even new) don't have public APis. I didn't see it mentioned on the site which is why I assumed it didn't exist.

By custom domains I mean user supplied top level domains. Definitely have a read on how we view URL permanence [1]. I wish more sites thought about it and glad you already are.

[1] http://blog.theopenphotoproject.org/post/10537443380/namespa...

Multiple domains names per blog, too?

Out of curiosity, what's the use case for this?

Instead of a pledge, what about something more concrete and legally binding in the contract?

Or endow a non-profit with sufficient funds to ensure perpetually running no matter the number of subscriptions.

This is almost certainly what will come down the road. How else can we make sure Posthaven stays online past our lifetimes?

Personally I'd be worried about making such claims. It's all great until someone knocks on the door with a bag of cash.

Yes, and that very moment all such pledge go down the gutter.

Just look at the examples.

WebFaction works just fine for me and so does Jekyll.