No fees or anything we just ask people support the place we host it by buying beer/ food. 

Most people fail in the industry because they think its about opening doors and hosting open houses.

Check here: https://www.biggerpockets.com/files Brandon Turner also hosts free weekly webinars in which he analyzes deals live on the webinar with the millions of attendees (ok maybe not millions, but a lot!!).

Cloud.

I have been reading a lot of the posts, listening to the podcast and reading the books put out by BP and the ones recommended by the show hosts and the guests.

better is wordpress, get hosting at Bluehost, get a domain, get a free landing page template.

Depends on a host of factors that, at a minimum, are market/ sub market specific. 

If you'd like, I co-host a meetup that meets here in the sfv.

That's crazy policy, I don't think any host should accept that.I have had 2 chargebacks on VRBO in the last 12 months, in both cases, my so-called Premier Partner Rep calls to threaten that they 'll take me off the platform if I don't sign their authorization to debit the account, I reply they can't since this was not in place when I first signed with the new CC company, and paid my annual fee, and no party to a contract can unilaterally change things....

I have online services, ie, cloud subscriptions.