So many long forgotten relics and old friends lost to time.
bbs, usenet, irc, aol chat rooms, aim/icq/msn messenger (by the way, anyone remember Trillian?), geocities web-rings, various phpBB forums (shoutout neopages), oekaki drawing boards, livejournal, stumbleupon,
1 vCPU, 1GB Ram, 50GB storage using the smallest x86_64 compute instances on Oracle Cloud. Qualifies for always free which is nice while I'm simply testing out a personal server. It's working just fine within those constraints. For now, at least.
Like you, I'm worried about storage. I would like to run it from home, but I live in the woods and my internet isn't reliable enough.