I run https://box.cock.li/ , a VPS provider that caters to shitposters and people that kind of like that eerie feeling that your server could shut down at any moment.
I don't really have any idea what I'm doing, but I don't really know how to run a mail server either but I seem to be doing okay with https://cock.li/ (this is where most of my customers are from)
It's currently at about $2K total revenue, and once this transfer of IP space finishes I can properly scale to about $1.8K MRR.
I love this. You've framed it perfectly to set low expectations, with name and niche that won't expect fancy design, and "a server as bad as your email". Yet make $2k a month.
That's interesting. Given that you cater to 'shitposters' and you say yourself that you don't really know what you're doing, are you up at night wondering if you've made a novice error and a user or someone who dislikes one of your users is rooting around in your hardware up to no good? And is there any profit to be made at your current size for your revenue?
>are you up at night wondering if you've made a novice error and a user or someone who dislikes one of your users is rooting around in your hardware up to no good?
I dropped a database on accident yesterday because I assumed that replication was broken (it wasn't). If someone has managed to root my servers I hope they clean stuff up a bit.
>And is there any profit to be made at your current size for your revenue?
Cock.li operates not-for-profit, making it a break-even operation that operates financially separate from cockbox.
Cockbox took about $2-3K of investment to get going on rented IP space, total to date I have invested about $9K on server hardware to support up to 180 "slots" (sold GB of memory aka $10MRR) and IP space to support a bit more than that (1x/24 aka 255 IPv4 addresses and a /48 IPv6).
Considering ongoing expenses are hardware replacements and colocation costs, profit margins are very high.
I don't really have any idea what I'm doing, but I don't really know how to run a mail server either but I seem to be doing okay with https://cock.li/ (this is where most of my customers are from)
It's currently at about $2K total revenue, and once this transfer of IP space finishes I can properly scale to about $1.8K MRR.