Archive-It
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you are a library, archive, university, or government body with a funded web-preservation mandate.
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Archive-It vs Wayback Machine
Wayback Machine
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Pick Archive-It when
- Academic libraries
- Government archives
- University web-preservation programs
- Library consortia
When Archive-It is not a fit
- Individuals saving a few pages
- Small businesses backing up their own website
- Teams without digital-preservation staff
- Anyone needing transparent upfront pricing
Sources
- Archive-It - The American Archivist Reviews Portalreviews.americanarchivist.orgreview
- Sowing the Seeds for More Usable Web Archives: A Usability Studyamerican-archivist.kglmeridian.comreview
- Archive-It Reviews - Slashdotslashdot.orgreview
- Smithsonian Now Using Archive-It to Crawl Websitessiarchives.si.edunews
- A look back at 20 years of Archive-Itarchive-it.orgofficial
- Archive-It product page (pricing contact)archive-it.orgofficial
- Archive-It Storage and Preservation Policysupport.archive-it.orgofficial
- ConCan Archive-It service agreementconcan.caofficial
- Internet Archive hacked, data breach impacts 31 million usersbleepingcomputer.comsecurity
- Internet Archive Services Update: 2024-10-21blog.archive.orgsecurity
- COPPUL on Archive-Itcoppul.caofficial
- University of Alberta Archive-It guideguides.library.ualberta.caofficial
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