>Sure but that's what I'm saying you are asking one man to do a lot of work for what I presume is his side hustle/hobby site. Plus the site is not monitizable. It would be BTC donations at best. Patreon, ads, etc. would be shut down/just another vector to influence the platform. Putt claims to have solely funded Voat out of his own pocket from March --> December at an approximate cost of $10k/month. For $90,000...even a modest amount of bitcoin would be well worth it to offset that out of pocket cost. >Moving a sever/site is a time consuming pain in the ass. It is annoying to change DNS providers, repoint the records, and move VM objects to a new host...but given how much Voat was down I doubt anyone would have noticed the outage. >It's asking a lot for one guy. You could spend more time setting up caching layers and load balancers and AWS scaling (an especially betrayal happy host) than it took to build Voat to begin with. I agree. It was too much for one guy, which is why he should have asked for some help. Especially some of the "dumb" outages like the time the tempdb or logs consumed all available hard drive space and took the site down for days until Atko poked his head in to bail Putt out. That would be a perfect opportunity for "can someone write me a script to monitor drive space and pop out an email alert if it crosses a certain threshhold?" >If you are going to have staff and moderation (or even just support) you need tools. You can't expect the DMCA guy to go into the DB and find the file, you need a viable search tool, you need editing tools, you need a process/ticket system. Setup relaying on the DMCA takedown email address to forward a copy to a volunteer. Volunteer reviews the DMCA takedown notice which clearly specifies the offending content, where to find it, gives it a look to see if it appears legitimate, and forwards it to Putt with "Go Delete X post" or "This is bogus". Putt then moves the original email to a sub-folder of completed requests...which he'd have to do anyway. This takes an existing time-sink and turns it into < 30 seconds of his time to act on it since someone did all the legwork. >We haven't even gotten to routine server maintaiance/updates and software updates/bug/compatibility fixes, IP bans, rollbacks and backups... I don't blame Putt, I've tried to run sites before it's a time consuming pain in the ass with very little reward. Even running brochure-ware sites and keeping those up requires a few dozen hours a year of server maintenance and software updates and bug fixes. Even in success you'll end up broke and infamous. I hear you on that. The way he was doing it was a thankless job where he really only wanted to do the technical work without the business side of the operation (delegation, income, etc).