[h2odragon]

I use Pelican ( https://blog.getpelican.com/ ) and host on NearlyFreeSpeech ( https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ ) for my blog, https://snafuhall.com/ .

I don't have much traffic; the blog and email/etc runs less than $10/mo.

It's possible to lease a bare IP range and set up your own DNS servers, etc. For small amounts of traffic theres no reason you couldn't use a RasPi to serve a blog that way. There's also drawbacks and headaches that make renting someone else's stuff attractive.