Board Thread:Suggestions and Ideas/@comment-14600979-20150610003725/@comment-9531161-20150612131926

We can't use smilebasic.net or any other combination that consists of only smilebasic because we are not the creators and I don't want any problems. If smileboom decides that they don't want random people holding on to a domain that may intercept traffic or something, they may ask us to cease and desist.

It doesn't matter if they're trusted... almost ALL web hosting services do the sneaky DNS thing. I've already researched it, and I'd rather not have sketchy advertisements pop up when people click the wrong link.

Yes, running it ourselves will be less reliable, but you don't need some huge server rack to host such a small website to a small community. We're not hosting an application which needs to be executed on our end; it's not a gaming server or a file hosting service. We'll be serving small pages accessing a SMALL database with a VERY SMALL amount of users. I've already looked into it, and even a basic computer you buy at the store can support like 1000 users browsing at the same time while serving up dynamic content. If we all decide we want to move to a custom website and we get a prototype up and running, I'm going to build a server machine that should be more than sufficient for our needs.

Also, I hate to bring this up, but I do have much of the required experience to make this happen. Plus it'll be a fun project!