1000 down and 100 up for ca 40 euro a month

Down for me as well

I really enjoy boost.

I selfhost PhotoPrism.

I use a folder sync app, to upload all my pictures from my phone to a directory on my server, which PhotoPrism imports from every 15 mins(Might be a bit more or less).

I have used it for a couple of years and it has worked fine for me.

Thank you for clarifying(and sorry for the late answer).

For you (and anyone interested) I will answer the questions you asked.

Are you going to close upon any legal threat, or only upon a certain degree or size of threat?

If the legal threat is real(they have a real chance to win in a court) and there is nothing I could do(come to an agreement, move the hosting to another server etc), then I would close the server.

From the US only, or from any country?

Server is hosted in Germany

Will you close instantly, or will you guarantee a Minimum Survivability Timeframe for eg.: helping users to migrate away, like Mastodon’s covenant does?

As long as there aren’t fines for keeping the website up or I get arrested, I would give a notice, so users can move to another server.

Lemmy.world does a great job(with a little downtime) and it is the same software we are hosting, so I can only see a couple of ways to make a better “offering”

1. Better uptime as you mentioned
2. Different deferation/moderation policy.
3. Visual customizations(eg. different theme)

I try to provide a better uptime and a different deferation/moderation policy. I don’t have the skills to make visual customizations, but I have added multiple frontends(like lemmy.world).

I’m open to suggestions/ideas if there is anything else that could be done to improve the “offering”.

As an alternative to lemmy.world I would like to suggest my own instance endlesstalk.org.

I have no plans to deferate or ban anything releated to piracy. Only thing that might change my mind would probably be a company taking legal action against me.

I also strive to have as little downtime as possible and keep everything running smoothly.

My instance endlesstalk.org is hosted in Germany via Hetzner, so that should fit the bill.

Defederations are only done, when it would have a negative effect on the instance’s users, but I’m always open to discuss, if anyone disagrees with a deferation.