Not to backseat PG or anything, but:-

You haven't been here long enough.

Much of your posting has concerned your desire for Permission.

You don't seem that bothered about the Board itself; we're a community first and a mission-going organization a very distant second.

So yeah, at present, slim to none by my reckoning. Being refused permission isn't the end of the world though; you still have the Board to hang around, after all. =]

We say to wait for X amount of time before requesting Permission, but that's just so you can hang around the Board and become a part of the community. If you see it as a deadline or a hurdle to be cleared, well, ur doin it rong. =]

hS and I use free webhosting services—Webs and Tripod, respectively. They give you a certain amount of storage, and you can build whatever kind of site you want (within their TOS). You don't even have to know HTML/CSS to take advantage of them these days, since they provide WYSIWYG sitebuilding services. I don't like those, personally, because I find them restricting, but that's not to say they aren't great for other people.

However, Webs has repeatedly proven to be THE WORST in terms of pages/sites randomly going down for dubious reasons (note that hS stores most of his actual stories on GDocs now), so I'd recommend Tripod more than ever. They do put obnoxious ads on your pages, but since just about everyone uses AdBlocker or the like these days, it's not that big of a problem. Also, the only trouble I've ever had from them in over ten years is one instance of the Lost Tales site going down because of an alleged TOS violation on one page, and the issue was easily resolved. Their customer service was very helpful.

There are others, too—I think Google has one—but I'm not familiar with them. Like I said, I've been with Tripod for ten years, no complaints.

~Neshomeh

I've been a member of that since 2011/12, but I'm afraid a mission could get taken down... Then again, all the forbidden things that site says not to write almost never gets taken down. Like the expressly forebidden M-rated fics, which I see on the archives all the time. It's sad.