(author here) I've had a VPS with Ubuntu/Debian since 2008, so like 16 years now ... I still use it, but not for anything I actually want to be up all the time

(author here) I've had a VPS with Ubuntu/Debian since 2008, so like 16 years now ... I still use it, but not for anything I actually want to be up all the time Over time I found the "set and forget" nature of shared hosting a lot more reliable That might just be me, but I don't think so. I've noticed A TON of link rot due to "I set up a VPS, and wrote one or two good blog posts last year. But now I am doing other things, and the VPS rotted". I think it's mainly monitoring, and putting other stuff on the VPS that's unrelated to the blog For a blog, I'd use Github pages before a VPS. But as mentioned, that only handles static sites, and scripting is useful (even for blogs)