You're paying $5-10 per month to host static files on a linode VM, when you could host it for free on netlify, vercel, github pages... etc Vendor lock-in is no

You're paying $5-10 per month to host static files on a linode VM, when you could host it for free on netlify, vercel, github pages... etc Vendor lock-in is no where near as bad for static sites too, as the actual static build is the same just slightly different deploy commands for different platforms. A commercial product might not exist in a few years, but you can't guarantee someone else will pay for your Caddy server VM, after you're gone too.