/tech/ - Technology

1) buy domain
2) rent VPS
3) install suitable chan software on said VPS
4) point domain to VPS's IP

instead of a VPS you could also host it on say a Raspberry Pi on your home internets

>>28723
You can't really do it without paying money. maybe if you have a old-ish pc (from 2012 or newer) lying around you can host the website at your home, but you'll still have to pay the electricity and purchase a domain

>>28723
learn 2 code

>a left-wing alternative to soyjak.st
what does that mean…? would it be wojak posting minus the racism and queerphobia? wojaks are clung to because they're obnoxious and ugly. that's inherently right wing if you ask me. it's like "acting like an asshat to own the libs" turned into a forced counterculture

>>28723
>How the fuck does one make a messageboard without paying money
Back in the day you could host on an old PC with a dyndns (assuming you don't have a static IP) and a dot.tk but facebook sued dot.tk (e.g. they're the global center of cyber crime etc. etc.) and similar, so you'd have some difficulty finding a domain name today. It might be possible to get a free subdomain from a less reputable source like this one: https://of.to/ As an alternative you could also host as an onion site, or just hand out an (static) IP address (but this might also cost extra).

>>29056
You'd want to be really careful about hosting on your own network, especially an imageboard, or its possible the whole thing could get pwned.

if you have to ask then you're not the right person to do it.

>>28723
I can make you one xister but I'm not doing it for free 😹😹 I'm not a slave #workersrights I deserve money

>>29051
>>29056
why would u ever expose ur home ip to random channers

>>29166
Wouldn't suggest really.
Unless it was just something for a few friends to chat on.

>>29171
>>29166
you could use cloudflare to reverse proxy, but you'd have to pay for separate business tier internet with a static ip and better upload speeds, which isn't available in all locations plus its gonna cost like $80 a month which is way more than budget VPS's

>>28723
maybe ask the leftypol.org admins to create a board on this site and volunteer to mod it full time.

>>29051
Self-hosting things in 2025 is a surefire way to ensure you'll spend thousands of hours fending off hackerman AI bots from state actors trying to spread their funnyware everywhere.
Not to mention that the target audience of imageboards will be very drawn towards getting lulz out of your infosec mistakes.

>>29176
It might be worth a shot considering our commissars are always down to create ghost boards that noone uses like /tech/

>>29178
>It might be worth a shot considering our commissars are always down to create ghost boards that noone uses like /tech/
No. The last thing we need is another zombie board with one post a week.