The Server tier is the arrangement the foundation was built for. It is easy to describe: you rent a virtual machine, the platform is installed on it, and from that moment the community running there is yours. Below is what that means in practice.
What the host controls
- Who joins. You decide whether the server is open to anyone or to an invited circle, and you hand out the tiers below Server to your members.
- What it is about. A server can be a town, a trade, a genre of books, a language, a hobby — the software does not assume a topic.
- The rules. Moderation, publishing policy, what is allowed. The foundation writes software, not community law.
- The advertising. If there is any, you sell it. There is no revenue share and no house advertising injected into your pages.
- The data. It sits in a database on your machine. You can back it up, move it, or take it elsewhere.
What the foundation does
We develop the software and keep it working: the engine, the panel, the templates, the search-related plumbing. Improvements arrive for every installation, so a server does not drift into an unmaintainable fork the way a custom-built site usually does.
What we do not do: we do not host your community, do not moderate it, do not take a percentage, and do not sit between you and your members. If the foundation disappeared tomorrow, an installed server would keep running.
What it takes
A cloud VPS of modest size, a domain name, and someone willing to look after it — the same skills as running any small server. If nobody in the community has them, a hosting company or one of the partner studios can do the setup and the routine maintenance; that is a paid service, and it is separate from the software itself.
What a server looks like when it runs
The clearest example is qwetru.ru: one installation carrying dozens of sites — shops, studios, personal pages — each with its own domain, its own owner and its own content. See the platform and live sites for the full map, or start a community for the practical steps.