It's not a business model. "No Support Linux Hosting" is a white labeled version of Shanje Inc. which is a small business from Iowa run by 1-2 people which was founded back in 1997, so they truly are a blast from the past. Shanje controls a Class C IPv4 block and they use it to host about 30,000 websites which nets them an estimated yearly revenue of ~$70k. Most of the sites that were impacted are ones you've never heard of like francisdiamonds.com and almuftahrentacar.com, but someone loved them enough to put them online, and now they've all been destroyed. Between hacking and COVID we've certainly seen a systematic decimation of the petit bourgeois. It's a tough time to be a small business owner.
That's what is especially frustrating to see. So much of the pre 2010 web is just gone, and I'm sure much of it gone because of something like this. hacks by ransomware garbage or script kids doing it "for the Lulz."
Don't mock lulz since that was the best part of the old web. When I think of lulz I remember stories like jobs and woz poking at&t in the eye blue boxing the pope. Today's guard rose to power on a billion laughs, but there's nothing funny about the criminality and extortion that flourishes under their watch as they focus their attention on banning people for vulgarity. OPM doomed us all.
