[TheOtherHobbes]

I have a friend who was running a successful dating site over ADSL from a spare PC in a spare bedroom in London. This was in the early 2000s. She sold it a few years later for £££££££s.

This was considered a sophisticated operation because in the late 90s and early 00s basic hosting and email were often included with consumer Internet packages.

Server hacking and DDOSing weren't quite the organised thing they are today.