Well I'm out of ideas for advertising this place to get more anons on board. Sneakily advertising this place on moe hasn't brought any users nor has advertising it on exhentai. The good news is that I have a working vichan instance on one of my local machines. It wasn't too bad once I got the configuration files, file permissions and mysql issues worked out. The next step is getting the cheapest VPS host + domain registrar and start playing with the web server and networking parts.