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A pack of rolling paper 1 1/4 50 leaves is 4$ at the store, buying a box of 25 packs is 20$ online, same shit with filters, i buy them in pack of 1000 from eastern europe for 20$, costs me under 40$ for 1000 smokes when a box of prerolled papers with filter is 20 for 200

I pay about half price for higher quality cigs, handrolling rules

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@graf @Folklore @Frank @fknretardlol @vitalis @spacemanspiff @ForbiddenDreamer @adequate Makes sense. why do you need to wait for the isp though?

unless you get butt hurt messages to the isp.

or run them all under one.

Idk, for me, i'd probably vps the front ends across multiple services, and store the DB on owned hardware.

But thats a bigger scale than I deal with. I'd have to think about it for awhile but solvable.
@graf @Folklore @Frank @fknretardlol @vitalis @spacemanspiff @ForbiddenDreamer @adequate I like hardware and infastructure. Idk im a nerd?

So lets say you have 50 legit instances (i assume like 40 of them are single user or close) so what i'd do (depending on domain rep) is use proxies for the FE basically each instance would get it's own vps (again depending on budget and usuage) I'd have the front ends live on vps's and keep a master db on owned hardware I control.

Based on my usuage I may just run the db at home with fiber and an unlimited plan, and it should be good, but that still leaves the fucking media.

So for that probably colocation for the media server.
@Tony @Folklore @Frank @fknretardlol @vitalis @spacemanspiff @ForbiddenDreamer @adequate Yeah. You're telling me. I've been operating at a loss for every month but 2. But I'm doing it out of pocket still because people rely on the service. It's being run as efficient as possible with the database and storage isolated on the same hypervisor with local backups and offsite. But with the lack of people now it costs me about double what I charge for it every month. so I have to get this moved when I can. again, I'm waiting
@Tony @Folklore @Frank @fknretardlol @vitalis @BillingtonYVR @koropokkur @spacemanspiff @ForbiddenDreamer @adequate Maybe you can explain to other people who whine about poast why we do what we do. Mind you, I could tell you to kill yourself if you were trans and the owner of our ISP wouldn't give single fuck since we are more or less deplatformable now. We adhere to our rules, the ISP knows our rules. They know we act within minutes but no less than an hour on any report. They know we have automated moderation for a lot of shit that to date has a 0 fault rate I would like to add.

I spoke at length in 2021 but I will tell you the same thing I said in the past: there are three boogeymen of the "free and open internet" that is 1. dox as definited as information somebody has not posted themselves online, we limit this to the space we occupy -- if you post your dox outside of poast it's off limits unless you post it here. 2. verifiable or credible threats -- if you post a threat on here especially with motive or a plan it will be reported to authorities. 3 - illegal content such as revenge porn, csam, etc