Spent $40 on a web hosting plan in 2007 for a fan site that's still online

I was really into this one band back then and paid for a year of basic hosting to run a site with lyrics and photos. The band broke up, I forgot to cancel, and the auto-renew kept going for years, so it's just been sitting there untouched since maybe 2009. I mean, it's kind of a weird time capsule now, but I'm not sure if I should finally pull the plug or just leave it up as an abandoned web find. Anyone else have an old personal site they're still paying for by accident?

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johnson.adam1mo ago

How much do you think I've spent over the years on my old Angelfire site? I'm too scared to check the bank statements. It's basically a shrine to my 2003 obsession with frosted tips. I keep it up as a warning to my future self about bad financial choices. Honestly, your band site sounds way cooler than my cringe page. I'd leave it up, it's a piece of internet history now.

thompson.tyler1mo ago

Honestly, checking those old statements is probably a good idea. That Angelfire bill is just dead money every month for a joke nobody visits. Tbh, future you might want that cash for something that isn't a digital hair gel museum. Ngl, pulling the plug feels way more like growth than keeping up a cringe archive.