He’s kind of right. It has always struck me as odd. I run a small IT business and do manage a few online forums. For 1M daily users on an imageboard, which is way more expensive to run than a mostly text board like FR, we charge ~15K/mo on the upper end to cover bandwidth and storage. I would peg FR in the ~2500-3500/mo range for infrastructure/management. Even after legal and accounting this seems to be a very healthy operations when it comes to profitability, that is until California gets their fair share. I wonder why they never formed an LLC in a place like Florida.
Same recommendation for you, then.
Start your own forum.
Big man with all that behind him.
Should be easy enough.
Get going tomorrow. Why wait?