A friend in high school helped me install a counter strike server on linux on an old desktop. From there, I experimented with hosting some forums and an upload script to save files remotely. In the days way before the cloud was a thing. That got me interested enough to start figuring things out and get into it.

I’ve been using them for a few years now. Always good and reliable. My wife and I both have accounts on a custom domain from them.

I have the same issue. I use multiple accounts across different servers, and get a different subset of comments across each one. Not sure the solution right now.