That's fine, it's not really a crusade. Just my opinion about the right infrastructure for the right use case informed by the objective reasons I gave. If doing more work with more headaches for a solution that costs more and performs worse is your jam, then power to you.

You’ve written nothing objective.

Sure I have. Let me help you by recapping:

1. VPS costs more money. CDN is free for all intents and purposes.

2. VPS has worse availability even when run perfectly.

3. VPS requires more monitoring and maintenance.

4. VPS presents far greater security risk.

You don’t need to recap your subjective experience, it’s on full display.

u/grebc if money is subjective to you, then you're free to send me some as you objectively won't miss it.

Seems you have trouble reading too.