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This whole blog is a treasure for new EEs. The great mystery is that the author disappeared while working on a DAC revision but has kept their site running for over a decade.



Do you need to put any effort into a Blogspot site to keep it online?


You need to pay hosting bills. Or keep a server running somewhere in your home.


Blogspot is google's blogging platform


And Google will happily delete your blog if it's associated with an inactive account:

https://support.google.com/blogger/thread/226117604/my-blog-...


If you've bought something using a Google account, it won't be marked as inactive even if you don't log into it. So it could be possible that he died in a car accident or something, but his blog will just keep on trucking along for years and years because he bought an app for his phone from the Google Play Store.


Yes, you can take measures to avoid your account being marked inactive but A) not as easy as "it's Google, you can trust it" and B) Google could change their minds about this stuff and go on a deletion spree at any moment, or even shut down blogspot entirely, it's not like they haven't shown form previously.


D'oh! Somehow my brained mapped blogspot to Wordpress.


Aren't Blogspot blogs free and hosted in Google's DCs?


The domain NwAvGuy.com was last renewed in 2023.




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