You can buy a server for us and have it delivered to my place. It will always be your server. The harddrives will always be mine. The community will always be OURS. You can have the server back whenever you want, with fair warning. You'll have to pay for shipping. Unless I get arrested or die or something serious there will never be any reason why I would change these terms. Eventually we'll have a service worth donating to so perhaps we can buy it back - and maybe buy some 24-bay drive racks for archives and PeerTube if really successful.

My old box, now named "Cassandra" (truthe prophet of doom) on Lubuntu, as server is currently good for testing on and lighter things but nothing heavy - and it's first in our new federation.

It might be nice to have a "server-copy-service" where people deliver a blank harddrive to me, I mirror it, and then send it to them to seed their server. I know it's never that simple, but it might be nice to help speed up the federation with processes more akin to plug-n-play.