> As I understand the web site is hosted on a centralized data-set. What would happen to posts if it was gone? That's the right question to ask of any system, not just this one. A centralized dataset is a single point of failure by definition; the operator can vanish, get compelled, or just lose the drive. Nodes that don't hold their own copy of the record are trusting someone else to hold it for them. Whether that matters here depends on whether anyone besides the host has a copy. If not, the archive is a courtesy, not a guarantee.