[dayglored]

I can't speak to the advertising angle, but with regard to basic domain/hosting, here's what I do to avoid hosting-service problems.

DIY website hosting is not hard if you're somewhat computer savvy. The whole thing takes less than one day, even the first time through.

• Get a free Amazon AWS account. (15 minutes)
• Create an Ubuntu Linux server of appropriate size for your anticipated load. I usually pick one in the T3 family, they're fast and inexpensive. (1 hour)
• Login to the server (SSH). Set a static IP. Install Apache, configure for your desired domain name, including Let's Encrypt SSL cert. Allow inbound HTTP/HTTPS traffic. (3 hours)
• Get a free GoDaddy account. (15 minutes)
• Register your new domain name with GoDaddy, point the www DNS entry at your new server. (15 minutes)
• Upload your web content, test that things are working from a browser. (1 hour)
• Ongoing maintenance consists of an occasional backup, and running security updates on the server (1 hour per month).

At that point you are your own ISP: you have your own domain and your own server, and nobody can say squat about your web content. It's not rocket science, and you have the satisfaction of not answering to anybody.

Note: If you're NOT computer savvy, but are fairly intelligent and willing to learn, allow a few initial hours to do the googling and reading required to understand the steps above.

[dayglored]

And if you don't want to work with GoDaddy and/or Amazon, fine, there are plenty of alternative providers, and some of them aren't too woke.

I started working with GoDaddy and Amazon many years before "woke" was even a thing, and I just grit my teeth a little when I pay them for their service. :-)

[chrisser]

This is very familiar to me, although my Linux has gotten a little rusty.

But I’m concerned about AWS deciding to cut me off. No that I plan on being as big of a problem for them as Parler, but unless I can do some modest monetization, this would be a hobby that I do as time allows - getting doxed or having the virtual environment ripped out from under me without notice would be a big bummer.

[Openurmind]

Lol, takes more than an hour to test everything my friend. :) Especially if you load up a turnkey boxed website script.

[zeugma]

Get a free Amazon AWS account.

Parlor got screwed by using AWS, IIRC. Might have been GCP, but the two are equivalent as far as wokeness