Diaspora is a decentralized self hosted Facebook Alternative.

There are cheaper servers, but this will suffice to get you started depending on demand for your site.

You’ll have to talk to your ISP about setting up a static IP or you can use a dyndns service if money is right. Most ISPs won’t care about you hosting a site until it reaches a certain traffic threshold.

Otherwise, Twitter, Facebook, and Amazon are private property and reserve the right to refuse service to anyone. They can’t stop you from self housing content (your ISP can though if it is illegal content).

Here are tow links of Amazon refurbished hardware from their data centers: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07R61YJQN/ref=dp_cerb_1

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075Z3F37Z/ref=dp_cerb_2

https://www.amazon.com/HP-DL360p-Gen8-RackMount-PC3-10600R/dp/B07QCVVF7D/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=server&qid=1620946898&sr=8-3

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https://www.amazon.com/PowerEdge-Server-E5-2660-Cores-Renewed/dp/B07VXK58P8/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=server&qid=1620946960&sr=8-5

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https://www.amazon.com/High-End-Dell-PowerEdge-R720-2-60Ghz/dp/B075Z3F37Z/ref=sr\_1\_9?dchild=1&keywords=server&qid=1620946986&sr=8-9

Are you using reverse psychology?

https://www.amazon.com/HP-DL360p-Gen8-RackMount-PC3-10600R/dp/B07QCVVF7D/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=server&qid=1620946898&sr=8-3

https://www.amazon.com/High-End-Dell-PowerEdge-R720-2-60Ghz/dp/B075Z3F37Z/ref=sr_1_9?dchild=1&keywords=server&qid=1620946986&sr=8-9

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What am I missing?