Would Jow Forums be interested in a small little webhost...

Would Jow Forums be interested in a small little webhost, nothing special but a couple of megs of space to run a simple little website kind of how Geocities used to be before it went up and died.
I've become enamoured with the websites of the early 90's with their tables to section parts from eachother and moving background animations and the like, and just enjoy that part of web history a lot. I sadly wasn't around at the time to enjoy the BBS scene but I feel kind of sad that something like that will never happen again with all the flashy web stuff that's happening today

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httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_userdir.html
unix.stackexchange.com/questions/162047/disable-operations-outside-users-home-directory-with-chroot-jail
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>Geocities
There is a couple of this already. My advice, gt familiar with what BBS and MUD were and try to make one, Jow Forums needs one.

sadly my knowledge about BBS's and MUD's are limited to the documentary that was made about them, it died not too long before after I was born so I was never able to experience it sadly.

neocities.org
txti.es
and there's probably others i'm not familiar with

but you should build it anyway, it sounds like a fun and simple project and if you posted the finished product here i bet a few people would play with it

I've always wanted a little project like this, seems like a lot of fun.
I never seen txti.es before, but seems nice for simple things.
The best would be if users could create a subfolder in the www folder with their own username and ftp/ssh into the folder and add their stuff.
but that's something i need to figure out for later I guess.

Bump

that's surprisingly straightforward to set up, the hard part is just coming up a secure way for people to create their accounts (which will be normal unix accounts)

apache has a super convenient feature for this: httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_userdir.html
(there's tutorials out there to do it with nginx too, which i personally prefer)

for ftp, use an ftpd which supports chroot jails, so that users get routed directly to their public_html folder and can't see the rest of the rootfs at all (regardless of permissions)
eg. unix.stackexchange.com/questions/162047/disable-operations-outside-users-home-directory-with-chroot-jail

creating accounts is left as an exercise for the reader

I'd be super interested in working on something like this if you need any help

>httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_userdir.html
Thanks for that, I'm gonna take my time and maybe practice a bit on a virtual machine before getting my hands dirty on actual hosting, but this should get me started at least.

I'm still really new to this kind of thing so if you think you can do a better job, please do.The idea just dawned on me when I noticed I left my adblock off and was flooded with banners and all sorts when going to a random website.
I just remember a simpler time, where people had like 5 megabyte worth of storage on their hosting and that was plenty for a regular website, you didn't need more than that unless you were hosting big ass files like music or video's but even then you could get away with it.
I made a little website a couple of days using some shitty javascript snippets and other stuff for effects and it looks pretty decent, and it's 165 KB in size, I could always let the less.js run from cloudflare like it says on the main page and then it would come in at a whopping 14 KB.

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Make it Gopher and I might feign interest.