Originally Posted by
Walt
I mentioned in another post that servers cost about $250, but maybe I should add something. You need to either have the technical ability to setup a server, or hire someone who does. Additionally, a major social platform could require thousands, or even millions of servers. That could be hundreds of millions in initial investment, before the social network takes off, so before you are making a profit.
There is a solution to get around that, basically rent someone else's server. Lets say your social network doubles in size, you can instantly double the number of servers you rent. Renting computer virtually is called cloud computing.
The biggest cloud computing companies, with the best services, and prices are in places like San Francisco, and Seattle. Companies that the Alt Right accuses of being liberal (they are somewhat right, but also somewhat wrong).
The question should be why have conservatives so failed to enter the computer industry successfully. The Koch Brothers promised a conservative Silicon Valley in Texas, and have failed to deliver. It is not a lack of money, or a lack of space on the internet (space on the internet is almost infinite). It is certainly not being frozen out of the market, most of the key software is open source, and completely free.
The problem is conservatives lack vision to run a company, and fantastic technical people to execute any possible vision. What little success they have had was forced on the internet by trump's government, and has turned out to be riddled by Russian backdoors.
So now the Alt Right needs to turn to Russians to provide services... If the Russians can do it, why not the American Alt Right?
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