I'd not expect any of these sites to be heavily trafficed going forward, so my guess: $5/month.
Note that large portions of geocities are being hosted on the web by various parties, most of whom are apparently using pizza money to do it. Geocities was still in the top-100 websites or so when it closed, and they're probably getting decent amounts of traffic from people trying to find old sites.
Even if there is heavy traffic, you're hosting a archival copy, not a production site, so you can just degrade performance as needed. See often slooow web.archive.org :)
Completely agree. I think there'd be an initial spike, but anything after that would well be within the capacity of my server, which is ~£30 a month. Not a high price for preserving the information... but how long would I want to keep it online, especially once it was only seeing a handful of hits a day.
Note that large portions of geocities are being hosted on the web by various parties, most of whom are apparently using pizza money to do it. Geocities was still in the top-100 websites or so when it closed, and they're probably getting decent amounts of traffic from people trying to find old sites.
Even if there is heavy traffic, you're hosting a archival copy, not a production site, so you can just degrade performance as needed. See often slooow web.archive.org :)