Arquivo.pt Memorial: preserves information of historical websites

Last updated on September 8th, 2026 at 10:48 am

Is it a problem to maintain your historical website?

There are many historical websites that provide valuable information but are no longer updated (for example websites of finished projects).

Therefore, organizations must invest significant amounts of resources to keep them online.

However, costs grow as websites become older because of the obsolescence of supporting technologies and consequent dangerous security vulnerabilities.

Arquivo.pt Memorial preserves historical websites

For example, the website www.inst-informatica.pt was a government agency under the Portuguese Ministry of Finance and was dissolved in 2012. Some of its responsibilities were transferred to the new entity Public Administration Shared Services Entity (eSPaP). Given the interest in preserving the historical record of the former entity, Arquivo.pt preserved the information published online by this website, and eSPaP was able to shut down the server while retaining only the domain.

Arquivo.pt Memorial offers high quality preservation of historical web-content that enables:

maintaining the original domain name of the website (e.g. www.inst-informatica.pt);
keeping the website content searchable through live-web search engines (e.g. search for “Instituto de Informática”);
avoiding broken links to internal pages (e.g. link to IT services page).

This way, website owners can preserve the online information that they published and don’t have to be permanently investing on infrastructure (e.g. servers, electricity, content management system) nor allocating IT staff to maintain their historical websites. They only have to maintain the ownership of the domain name.

If you want the information of your historical website to be preserved on the Arquivo.pt Memorial, contact us.