Archive.is blog
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You refer to the wonderful Wayback Machine. Have you had any discussions with the Internet Archive? Would you be interested in integrating your cool service with theirs somehow?
Anonymous
No, I hadn’t any discussion.
But I’ve heard some rumors about their plans to use real browsers to execute javascript, etc.
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You said u like the idea of sharing the data your site has collected. Seed it via torrent ;)
Currently all data is available via http.
Isn’t it enough ?
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The current homepage shows a box from which you can submit a link to be archived (which works really well, by the way). However, I think it would also be a nice idea to allow looking for previous snapshots of a web page by entering the address at the home page. (For example an extra button that says "find saved copies".)
Yes, the new design (which I hope will be online soon) will have this feature.
For a while, you can check if the page was saved by querying URLs like
http://archive.is/http://www.google.com/ - all snapshots of the exact url
http://archive.is/www.google.com - all snapshots from the domain
http://archive.is/*.google.com - all snapshots from all subdomains -
How can I delete an archived page?
Write to webmaster@archive.is
Currently there is no automated way to do it.
And it is not so easy to implement as it might look, because a lot of archived pages are referenced from Wikipedia or other wikis. The deleting of a page should be somehow synchronized with fixing those references on the wikis. Otherwise, if would be ridiculous if the site which goal is to fight the dead link problem has dead links itself.
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What motivates you?
I needed something like this for my personal use and have not found one (yes, there is WebCite but it could not save the pages I wanted to save, like Google Maps and Twitter).
Some useful features are still not implemented though :(
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So, if you say it costs you money - how much is it?
It is difficult to calculate the exact balance, because the servers are used for other projects as well. The last bill was ~700 euros, so I’d say archive.is costs 150-300 euros/months.
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Just a quick question. If you already have more than 10Tb, how are you paying all of that ? If I see well, there is no ads or stuff like that.
Yes, I pay for it.
I do not think it is correct (or even legal) to put ads on the pages created by others.
But another model of monetization can appear eventually.
For example, pay accounts with the ability to manage private bookmarks and do full text search, etc -
How long my snapshot will be stored? I have in mind the case when it has not been accessed for a long time.
Forever.
Although the snapshot may be deleted if it violates the rules of the hosting provider (for example, if the page contains pornography or used as the landing page for spam campaigns). -
What will happen to the data when you shut the site down (eventually)?
I do not plan to shut down the site.
But I like your idea to have backup on a 3rd party public site in a form that anyone can download, say, a zip file with any snapshot. The only problem is: there are more than 10 terabytes of the data and growing quickly.
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is it safe?
sure!