Hey all!
One thing I've noticed with the data hoarding of government websites is that not all people who need access to the data are tech savvy enough to download torrents, use archive.org, or have permissions to install Kiwix on their work machines, or even have the space to sometimes download some of these sites.
Access to this data is critical, and for the time being, sharing the data is not illegal. So, in the interest of posterity and ease of access, I also figure there no such thing as too many mirrors.
So I want to get your thoughts on a possible solution that's as close to a federated site for hosting all these archived sites and data as possible.
I own a domain that I can easily create subdomains for, i.e. cdc.thearchive.info, pubmed.thearchive.info, etc., and suppose I point the subdomains to hosts that host the sites and make them available again via Kiwix. This would make it easier for any health care workers, researchers, etc. who are not tech savvy to access the data again in a way they're familiar with and can figure out more easily.
Then, the interesting twist on this is, is anyone who also wants to help host this data via Kiwix or any other means, you'd give me the host you want me to add to DNS and I'd add it on my end, and on your end you'd create the Let's Encrypt certificates for the subdomain using the same proton Mail address I used to create the domain.
What are your thoughts? Would this work and be something you all see as useful? I just want to make the data more easily available and I figure there can't be enough mirrors of it for posterity.