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For about 6 years or so, I have hosted a set of very small websites, including this one, on Netlify. I found it very easy to use, since you just push to a github repo and boom! Your web site is updated in a few moments with the same content. And Netlify very kindly offers a free tier for small time users like me. (If you’re reading this, you’re part of a very small group, so thank you!) I use Hugo to build my static web sites, so the content on Netlify is just a lot of static files - html, css, javascript and a bunch of images for the most part. That all worked great until just recently, when I learned that Netlify was using Amazon Web Services under the hood, to host their account contents. I am not a fan of Amazon (the company) so this became a problem. Also, I am moving my code off of github, for similar reasons. So I needed a new solution to running my sites. It had to be cheap, not hosted by Amazon or any of the other big tech firms (so a free Oracle server is not an option), and I had to be able to control it entirely myself.