[rustler]

A portable personal Internet server that runs as a turnkey no-user-maintenance image on AWS, Digital Ocean, and OpenStack. It hosts your email, federated social networking and chat, file sharing and ad-blocking web proxy. The user experience is pure Internet with no ads, surveillance or vendor lock-in, all for $6/mo (hosting + DNS).

[l0b0]

This is an idea I've been toying with several times, but it never gets beyond the thinking stage because of the obstacles interacting with the rest of the world: getting at least two cloud provider accounts (one for regular operations and one for secure off-site backups, ideally with a different provider), estimating costs (because good luck actually calculating them), buying a domain and transferring it to the cloud provider, the intricacies of configuring email to not be black-holed immediately by other providers (something I only know from rumours), and I'm sure a host of others. Even an effort to make some of these things slightly easier would be most welcome, but I don't think 10,000 work days is enough to get something like this to a "turnkey" level. It would be absolutely the best to be proven wrong, though!

[rustler]

Maybe we could get it "mostly" turnkey just for email, and charge $10/mo to fund 2-3 full-time devops to maintain and extend it.

[ttul]

Oh yes please. Seconded.