I not only run my blog on a computer in the corner of the room, it's solar-powered as well. At night it is supported by a bunch of lead acid batteries[0].
If you can you should host your own blog/website on your own physical computer at home. Especially for blogs, availability and redundancy is just not critical. And if you do a little bit of preparation you can recover quickly from any failure. It is fun, you may learn a few things and it makes things more tangible. (Maybe dig into VLANs or a firewall with multiple interfaces that allows you to separate your home network from the server)
My blog is a static HTML site and it has survived many HN visits of 20k+ visits on a Raspberry Pi3b+. It has since been upgraded to a Pi4 but it doesn't really matter. My 50Mbit upload capacity was never really taxed at all.
I'm currently working for a customer fighting the Azure cloud and it's abysmal in every way possible. The simplest tasks of provisioning resources take forever to complete. It makes me fond of my 8-10 year old 20-core DL380 server that allows me to spin up a huge infrastructure in the same time Azure can spin up a small web app.
If you can you should host your own blog/website on your own physical computer at home. Especially for blogs, availability and redundancy is just not critical. And if you do a little bit of preparation you can recover quickly from any failure. It is fun, you may learn a few things and it makes things more tangible. (Maybe dig into VLANs or a firewall with multiple interfaces that allows you to separate your home network from the server)
My blog is a static HTML site and it has survived many HN visits of 20k+ visits on a Raspberry Pi3b+. It has since been upgraded to a Pi4 but it doesn't really matter. My 50Mbit upload capacity was never really taxed at all.
I'm currently working for a customer fighting the Azure cloud and it's abysmal in every way possible. The simplest tasks of provisioning resources take forever to complete. It makes me fond of my 8-10 year old 20-core DL380 server that allows me to spin up a huge infrastructure in the same time Azure can spin up a small web app.
[0] https://louwrentius.com/this-blog-is-now-running-on-solar-po...