The Internet Archive struggles mightily to save content when services shut down, but it is often a panicky reactive process. I wonder if there could be a world where the IA acts as a default host-of-record for startups, with a super-easy CDN relationship such that the content \
is archived-by-default in a heavily bandwidth restricted way, but your customers are served through conventional commercial means. I could imagine a CDN giving a nice rate for the "public good" of a continuously archived and mirrored service. I have a vague feeling that \
something like this could combine with a blockchain style technology to make internet applications that could outlive companies. A niche multiuser game that couldn't meet company revenue goals could still be "fed" by anyone that wanted to push resources at it, since the \
mechanisms would all be public and mirrored. There would be great temptation to keep "one critical piece" off of the public infrastructure, but being "certified pure" might be valuable to consumers as a sign that it won't just disappear.
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