Online archiving or paid secure webmail

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I write articles for several sites and would like to archive them in a place where they cannot be removed or adapted by anyone, assuring that they are conserved in a safe place where I can always retrieve them in a distant future. My best idea so far was creating a separate mailbox (I already opened a topic about this about secure mailboxes) where I would send a copy of every article to, and store them there.

However, as I find it very important to store my articles safely where I can be assured they are conserved safe, I decided to now take paid services in consideration.


FIRST QUESTION
Is there any service on the web (free or paid) that archives writings or files you send to them? Compare it to a safe in which you put your valuables. I would be quite interested if a service exists which serves as the online variant of a safe, a very secure place where I can store my articles.
It may be paid, the sole conditions are that the service is reliable and will exist for a long time, and that I can send my articles (as I sometimes write from public computers) without needing to sign in to the online storage/safe and enter my login details.


SECOND QUESTION
Assuming that just sending a copy of my articles to a special mailbox used only for archiving and storing my writings is the best option after all... I would like the mailbox to have the following features
- requires no cookies
- does not store your sign in details
- large storage space (I would say at least close to 500 MB but more is of course better)
- SSL/HTTPS for secure sign in
- lists the sign ins with date/time and IP of last sign in (! !)

Which service would you recommend? So far Safe Mail has everything I am looking for, with the sole exception that they are quite pricey if you want to at least have 100 MB storage or so. Any other recommendations (again, paying is not a problem as long as we dont talk about 100 euro per year or so)

It is far better to store them in a wide variety of places then a single 'secure' place.

Buy a thumb drive and back everything up on that. Get an ancient hard drive and put it on there and put it in a safe deposit box. Use TOR to anonymously create emails/web sites and send them to your own accounts. Store the access information in a physical safe or your head. Use stenography to hide them in else wise boring photos (be sure to back up the tool to decode them). Print off a hard copy, vacuum seal it, and put it in a lock box. Then bury it in the woods, and note the GPS position and hide that number somewhere (earmark certain pages of certain books). Whatever.

Really, your best chance at retaining something is if you distribute it. There is a marginally increased risk of someone finding it, but honestly that risk is insubstantially minimal when executed properly - unless someone is actively trying to find your writings. Then it is an entirely different matter that I feel best not directly discussing as it raises uncomfortable questions.

The negative result most likely to occur is your inability to recover the writings when desired, through duress, forgetfulness, or accident. Aim to combat that if your paranoia warrants it.

For what its worth, gmail (and others) use redundant data storage - they do not lose data even in the event of a RAID controller failure.

Amazon s3+jungledisk

If you just wish to retain an archived copy of them, save them on a flash drive, on your hard drive, on your regular mail server, and keep a hard copy. If you're trying to keep others from being able to access them, use crypto.