I totally understand and respect the decision to self-host his blog. I'm guessing it's a simple XML file (or set of XML files) statically transformed using XSLT

I totally understand and respect the decision to self-host his blog. I'm guessing it's a simple XML file (or set of XML files) statically transformed using XSLT or some hand-written transformer. I self-host my own stuff as well, and have for nearly 20 years. I just wanted to keep things in perspective. Both in his post and in general discourse regarding "the cloud", the option of not hosting things on AWS (or Azure or GCP) never seems to even enter into the equation. I would propose that personal blogs is hardly the only scenario where a more traditional hosting approach would be preferable.