Likely very cheap, you just have to buy all of the hardware first. I’ve got a raspberry pi b+ (the 2012 one) that I’ve previously used to host my music.
Alright, so I’ve not really looked into this a lot since it doesn’t really concern me at all, but shouldn’t the Hamas also be considered a bad bunch of people too? It really seems like an ESH situation to me…
You say that a VPN isn’t needed for Soulseek because it is ptp (peer to peer I assume?), but I thought that was the same “thing” as torrents use, which I’m fairly certain you pretty much need a VPN for?