I know exactly what it takes to make your own platform on the Internet:
- An ISP that doesn’t have silly rules about servers.
- A free domain from no-ip, or buy one.
- A Raspberry Pi 3 and junk.
- A terabyte hard drive.
- Free software and expertise to set it up.
I can’t say that my site is big traffic, but that’s not what I was aiming at: I’m trolling search engines. (Off of the high coverage topics on Scientology, e.g. Tom Cruise, it’ll probably be in the top four pages on Google.) If traffic was was my aim, I’d have advertising and be working to boot strap my setup.
P.S. No free speech here. My server, my rules – or I’ll pull the plug.
