> This blogger has weird preferences and money to burn on them.

I don't know. Spending $100/month on colocation costs is hardly a tophat-wearing level of expense. I recall reading from the old Reddit-to-Lemmy migration discussions that some self-hosting instances were costing that much on AWS, and they are still up.

For perspective, we're in an internet forum where from time to time we get posts of users spending thousands on their home labs.