Again I think you guys are overestimating what a simple VPS host can do with those seemingly super cheap prices. Those are usually intro prices anyways and once you start hitting a certain traffic threshold your site can't be handled by what they advertise anyways.
That's what I was thinking as well but ResetEra doesn't actually 'host' anything beyond text.
All the images and ads are linked and embedded from external sources and servers (i.e. no data use for Ree).
The only thing self hosted are the avatars, which by the time you hit 10 threads are already cached on your HDD.
I don't see anything on the site that would make their hosting expensive.
Swear to god dude STFU
Text based systems can still be incredibly costly; you are such a fucking dolt.
I'm talking about hosting. And literally the only thing you pay for with hosting is what you upload to your server, plus what the visitors of your website/forum whatever use.
if it's a bunch of avatars and pages filled with text, with very little CSS and no self-hosted images... hosting costs will be low.
Expensive shit is people streaming movies on your website or having people download/upload (large) files. But as I said, ResetEra hosts nothing of that themselves.
Especially if they use Amazon and you pay as you go, it won't be a massive investment. The footprint of a page on REE minus all the externally hosted elements is 54kb. Which is next to nothing in terms of data.