Sounds pretty cool, thanks for the details! Any chance of some pictures? My worry would be the same, I don't know if I trust myself not to flood the house lol

I did think about using a mechanical float like in the back of a toilet, and an overflow drain in case it never stops filling

Eh while it sucks, registrars and web hosts get so many abuse reports that sometimes they just err on the side of caution and don't investigate as thoroughly as you'd like.

Of course it also depends a lot on various things like what type of complaint, how much money you spend with them, account history, complaint source, etc.

They should be able to tell you what they had a problem with and give you a chance to fix it.

Dumb question but what do you mean you cycled them a few times?

OpenBao is the open source fork of Vault

From your list, I'd go with hetzner. Racknerd is another good cheap option.

Also check out lowendtalk or lowendbox. Various providers post deals there petty often and the community is active.

I'm alright with the games that give you daily rewards but they don't have to be consecutive days. It still benefits people who log in everyday, but you at least aren't entirely missing out

So many good multiplayer games weren't live service games and did just fine

Consider still using sendgrid, AWS ses, or some other service for outbound mail. Incoming email isn't bad, but outgoing email is where your more likely to run into issues with your IP being blacklisted/etc

Have you reported the posts and users you're referring to? Or have you tried reaching out to the admins yet? Without proper reporting, you can't know if they're even aware of an issue.

It doesn't work on every website, but sometimes you can change your address to be in California and then magically a cancel button will appear.

rsync.net is great if you need something simple and cheap. Backblaze B2 is also decent, but does have the typical download and API usage cost.

There's a hostname replace plugin that can do this. You can use it to replace hostnames or just remove them from the results altogether.

Take a look at https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/searx/settings.yml#L231