So yeah anyone with a better idea could come up with some suggestions only as I don’t want to downgrade the server. It’s really really cheap $139 per year.
May I know who your hosting provider is
You have unlimited bandwidth and half a terabyte of storage. This is great for download heavy workloads. Some ideas I can think of:
- start a small "asset" download website: Things like wallpapers,3d assets, documents etc. There's a lot of public domain/CC-BY-NA assets you don't need to worry about copyright for and that you can curate in one place on a website. You can show people ads/do CPA when they download it.
- Cons: Competition is high so you need to niche down.
- private course forum/website: pirate courses and set up a encrypted download script on your server. Then start a paid private community on discord or telegram and then tell people to download with your script.
- cons: copyrighted content, can't have your site open to the public internet or put on Google search to get seo traffic. You've to figure out marketing yourself.
- Private paid Jellyfin/Plex server: similar to above. If you know people who like to watch movies but don't want to pay $20 to Netflix/Hulu every month, you can just rip movies from torrents, host a media server with it and then ask people to pay you like 2$/mon instead of $20 for a small but well-curated library of content.
I do something like this for the boys at a local uni. They're porn freaks
, watch a lot but dunno where to since most adult websites are banned here by the government.
I've ripped 2tb worth of it
and hosted on a cheap storage box with
this oss software. I even have a form where they can request scenes. About 100 students pay me $2/mon. They pay with crypto. All communication over telegram. They don't know me, I don't know them. Very discreet business
Hosting is about $300/yr. I make some decent passive money with this
