Cheap is not free. People are putting in the work on Neocities to make sure the platform stays up, reachable, and free of abuse. There's regular stories of open

Cheap is not free. People are putting in the work on Neocities to make sure the platform stays up, reachable, and free of abuse. There's regular stories of open-source maintainers burning out due to the support burden. If you're not paying for the service, then the service owners will raise money some other way or stop offering the service. Today, that way is ads and data mining.