[rudian]

Because I believe it's bad advice. Web services are never "git and a $5 box", you must preserve them and keep them up to date.

I can trust GitHub with my deploy secrets; Can you trust your $5 last-updated-in-2019 box?

If you self-host, either you're a sysadmin or you must become one.

Plus GitHub is not just git, so I hope you'll also like to you set up "GitHub Actions" on that $5 box.

[JasonFruit]

All you are saying is that there are people for whom self-hosting is right, and others for whom it is not right. We don't disagree on that.