If you love a website, back it up
- ID
- 42136
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 02 Nov 2026, 9:25 PM
- Fetched
- 03 Nov 2026, 3:34 AM
- Provider
- Hacker News
- Category
- dev-community
- Original URL
- https://blog.mistys-internet.website/post/2026/10/29/if-you-love-a-website-back-it-up/
- Source URL
- https://hnrss.org/best
Summary
- Score
- 6.0
- Created
- 03 Nov 2026, 3:35 AM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_coderssaas_founders
What happened
A web-archiving worker describes losing teapuppies.com, a fansite online since 2004 and largely unchanged since 2005, after it disappeared and the domain began serving online gambling ads. The post argues individuals should archive favourite or depended-on sites themselves using standard WARC-format tools, and shows an entire archived website embedded in the blog post with a downloadable archive option.
Why it matters
If a site you rely on for docs, assets, tutorials, or reference content has been stable for years, that is not a guarantee it will stay up: this example vanished after roughly two decades and the domain was repurposed. Use WARC-compatible archiving and keep a downloadable copy rather than assuming the Internet Archive or the site owner will preserve it.
Discussion angle
Which third-party docs, examples, or assets would disrupt your workflow if the domain suddenly flipped to ads or vanished, and what is your concrete WARC/download backup routine for those?