The Internet is rotting. Everything we mentioned in the original article two years ago is still true today, and there is no indication of change for that dynamic. In fact, we have learned to assume that every element on the web has an expiration date, and it is our task to preserve the content we care about, whether by making local copies or using cloud services. One of those services is Archive Today, which reduces the backup process to a couple of clicks.
The Internet is a creature of change and evolution, a snake that sheds its skin at an impressive speed. Services that seemed essential have disappeared in a breath. Digital empires reaching millions of users feel their foundations tremble with the arrival of new products. And amid all that movement, web pages vanish without a trace…
Our first line of defense for these cases is the Internet Archive and its index, but it's far from offering an ideal experience. Despite some specific advantages like the ability to preserve (certain) files, its response can be disappointing more than once. The best alternative is to adopt an active strategy and preserve our favorite web pages using Archive Today.
Archive Today: An excellent online tool for preserving web pages
Archive Today explains that its priorities when backing up pages are the text, the images, the content of frames, images loaded or generated by JavaScript on Web 2.0 sites, and a screenshot at 1024x768. Videos, Flash files, PDF documents, RSS, and other XML elements are ignored.
The time it takes for each backup should be the same as any browser takes to load the original page, but there is a five-minute timeout, and any backup that goes beyond that limit will end in error. Another restriction is that the page and its content cannot exceed 50 megabytes. All data centers used by Archive Today are located on European territory. Text is stored three times, and images twice.
From a technical point of view, there is no expiration for saved pages, but Archive Today reserves the right to delete backups if they include sensitive material (adult content, cracked software, etc.), or if they are blank pages. Finally, the official FAQ contains references that help us find specific snapshots of a page, and other details such as IPv6 support and access to its API.
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