Not disagreeing, but the post is titled "Self-Hosting a Blog" which I would assume means that the blog author has already made the decision not to use GitHub or

Not disagreeing, but the post is titled "Self-Hosting a Blog" which I would assume means that the blog author has already made the decision not to use GitHub or Netlify (for some reason, don't know why). The truly cheap would go with one of them and avoid the $2.50 monthly fee for a server.