Eh, let's not get carried away. A blog requires almost zero maintenance (assuming it's "just" a blog). I've been running mine on a $5 Digital Ocean droplet for

Eh, let's not get carried away. A blog requires almost zero maintenance (assuming it's "just" a blog). I've been running mine on a $5 Digital Ocean droplet for several years without any fuss. Maintenance boils down to logging in once a year or so and installing whatever updates are required (which I'm a few years behind on...). It's survived a few HN front page posts even with this unoptimized, non-scalable, sqlite backed ramshackle setup all without breaking a sweat.