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I often do miss the internet of the old days.
Hosting a modern day gamefaqs would cost $500 per year or so.
I guess a wiki would be easier to offer version control, links and images for the author.
Maybe that would be $1000 a year.
A small vps should cost no more than $10/mo, and should be enough to run a text-based site (with compression) reasonably well. Obviously the gotcha will be bandwidth, but you could subsidize that with donations.
I'm accounting for a domain name and sufficient bandwidth.
I figure 10 TB per month should be enough.
The $500 is a conservative estimate.
You could try hosting it at home on an old laptop and see how it goes
That's 100% more bandwidth than not doing it at all
I have free hosting and free bandwidth essentially. Have any recommendations for a CMS dedicated to this?
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