The main reason was having to deal with CSAM and copyright reports, the more common registrars/providers would threaten to pull me if I didn't reply in 24 or 48 hours and eventually I would get kicked off.
I was hosting copyrighted content, I wasn't hosting CSAM but there was legal content involving minors but average provider doesn't care and will argue with you or say it violates their TOS. These shady hosts/registrars just don't care, sure they might vanish one day but if you have backup it's fine.
I've seen lots of less experienced people overpay for hetzner and similar when a $5-10 vps would've worked.
I saw Marc Andreessen tweet "Buy physical copies of any book you plan to read in the future. Do it now." and thought there was a solar flare coming or something.https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1511929365264805897He's also been non-stop tweeting about "current thing", is there some SV drama that's gotten him worked up?
My postgres process doesn't come close to using up enough resources to push me out of even the cheap VPS tiers and I don't have to worry about locking if there's a heavy write load.
Their image related grouping works way better for the things I'm interested in (art/illustrations) than other sites.
Drat.