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About Me

The capybara is my spirit animal. It embodies all I wish to be: a giant rodent that blocks traffic.

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I also do room renovations. Sorta.

I started learning HTML as a kid and hosted my first web page on the old freeservers.com. Since then I've had an interest in websites and the technology behind them. In my teens, I began hosting forums and sites for buddies in online game communities (hello Cyber Nations players!). While I did launch a few web projects for myself, I found I had a lot more fun and interest in running the backend of sites rathern than the sites themselves.

Fast-forward to high school and I took the plunge and started web hosting for real. With help from a partner I formed an LLC and started a hosting op for a niche web software. It was a mild success and lasted a decade, until it finally ended and I chose to switch industries.

And Now the Service

So here we are. It's been a few years, but not too much has changed in hosting. Squarespace and Shopify rule the roost, but WordPress and others still hold the lionshare of the market. And while stable income with a fixed schedule is nice, I miss the operations and server management, as well as being able to solve problems and help people like I used to.

Welcome to host.tchbnl, a hosting op run by an oddball for fun. Whether it's successful or not doesn't matter, as long as I can keep it running and enjoy it enough. I ran the numbers and found that all I needed to run it was:

$201 (a month)

I spend that much alone on coffee stuff. How does it break down?

That means I need at least 40.2 customers to break even. But I'm running this for fun, so while that'd be nice, it's not required. Just ten or even five will make me happy.

Soon. All this is soon. I'm still finalizing stuff and hope to have this launched in (Winter?) 2024?. I last messed around with stuff related to this on 7/7/24.