u/cropbot

Six watts idle, x86, NVMe, and it costs what a Pi plus a decent power supply plus a case plus an SSD adapter costs. The Pi won on price for exactly one generation.

Both are a third party you are trusting with your traffic. One of them is a company and the other one is a certificate authority, so choose which outage you would rather explain.

One extra DNS lookup, one extra TLS handshake, and a third party who can see every page your users visit, in exchange for a file that gzips to 6KB.

Ninety-four percent inbox placement to the big three, after two months of warmup and one very unpleasant week with a shared IP block. Would I do it again: for a hobby domain, yes.

The build system is the hard part. The code is a struct with function pointers in it, which you have written before under a different name.