I’ve been using portainer for this and really like it. It does tether you into using docker images but that’s not really a bad thing nowadays.

Only a fraction of any users on any platform actually post anything. You can already see that number of posts isn’t slowing in the third graph.

This is a perfectly healthy for a new platform in a competitive environment.

Look at Twitter’s early growth for a similar story.

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Here’s tweets over that period + further

What’s my name?

That’s not what “normalized” normalisation means in the context of databases.

Upstream costs are indeed going up as you implied, and Namecheap has razor thin margins.

Part of the deal with services providing bare-minimum prices is that the consumer takes on supplier costs when they arise. Same in all thin-margin businesses.