We have been here before. Check out the history of Textdrive and Joyent. If the company succeeds (receives funding and has to answer to investors) then it will need to eventually push these accounts out. If it doesn&#x27;t succeed, then it will eventually die.<p>Further, as the hosting landscape changes, any sort of hosting environment may become obsolete and less useful. The first &quot;lifetime&quot; hosting offers from Textdrive were for shared hosting. Today, I would consider shared hosting next to worthless for my purposes. The same could happen to with VPS hosting.<p>Will they be upgrading these things over time? You would likely be continuing to shell out money over time to upgrade your resources.<p>The world of the internets is constantly changing. Anything which is &quot;for life&quot; doesn&#x27;t reflect that. This is a marketing campaign which doesn&#x27;t reflect reality.<p>I would rather pay the monthly fee. Cloud hosting providers are driving costs always lower. Container hosting on these clouds provide even cheaper options.<p>Who knows, maybe one day we&#x27;ll be able to live forever through the blockchain. ;)