[fitkoh]

One tough thing is when all VPS are provided by the site owners it would be a little tough to grow on. When you have sponsors everything is not really one place/person. But it's not hard if managed properly. Right now they offer some really good VPS and there is no other better alternatives.

This is very true; hardware and electricity are unfortunately not free, and growth is limited by budget. However, like so many others I'm deeply endeared to this type of free hosting and I hate to see it gone forever. Forums like this were paramount in teaching me what some fine educational institutions wouldn't, and providing resources I had no other way to obtain.

My idea was to approach the issue with a minimalistic mindset and try to make it appealing to a more niche market rather than something more generally appealing. I would keep the budget low by offering services at the bare minimum of usefulness rather than trying to duplicate large powerful packages. This would also allow me to be more flexible about posting requirements.

As an example of potential packages:
Small linux distro OS (debian min, sliTaz, tinycore, etc)
32mb ram
1 dedicated ip6
5 NAT ip4 ports
3gb disk
1 quality post a month

packages could be stackable for persons wanting a more powerful system. At 1 quality post a week it would become something like:
128mb ram
1 dedicated ip6
10 NAT ip4 ports
10gb disk

or at 4 posts/week something like
512mb ram
1 dedicated ip6
20 NAT ip4 ports
50gb disk

Anyways, it's mostly just brainstorming and testing currently. I'm fairly comfortable with most aspects of shared hosting, but virtualization is entirely new to me, so at best it would probably be a month or two until I can get everything figured out; although I may have some public testing before then. If anyone is really great at managing a hypervisor and wanted to offer me some tips along the way it would be very helpful You can find me in the p4v discord as "dancewiththedev"

Cheers