I just shut down an old status.net server that no longer resolved. Lmk if you see weird behavior.
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Yes and yes
Evan Prodromou at 2017-12-30T20:31:10Z
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Great, could you possibly go a step further and add TLS? LetsEncrypt should do the job.
What are the typical hosting expenses on it?
Stephen Judge at 2018-01-01T11:30:13Z
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I have it on a US$5/month server at Digital Ocean. Then another $20/year for .ca domain registration, more or less.
Probably the biggest expense is the spam reports. Spammers use url shorteners to hide their domains. Ur1.ca uses a number of black hole services to detect this, but it can't catch them all.
Spam detectors report the spam with a ur1.ca url in it to your hosting provider. They give you N hours to get rid of the shortened URL or they delete your account.