If you don’t exceed a single deployment, it’s fine.

If however in the future, you want to add additional services to your host, let’s say an alerting or status system, it’s a lot easier to declare everything in a single place and then attach a reverse proxy to manage networking multiple services on one host.

As I use docker for most of my deploys (as you should for websites exposed to the Internet anyway), I can wholeheartedly recommend traefik for this. Basically it has the functionality of nginx, but supports easy Let’s Encrypt certificates.

To some degree you could, but you’d either rely on Tier1 transits to access the entire internet (costly), or you’d use IXPs (keeping your traffic local to other IX participants).

This doesn’t account for how’d you’d actually go into purchasing a port for your residential home, which would probably entail laying your own fiber to a data center nearby.

Using archive.org as a CDN at the scale of Cloudflare would be an immediate death sentence for archive.org.

I mean there are plenty of legitimate reasons. If you want to give your child financial autonomy so that it can learn to budget, I think an online bank account may be a good idea.

But I don’t get the OPs point though, many banks offer adult-managed accounts until majority that only need an ID, not a face scan.

It’s so incredibly useful, especially with the Better BibTex plugin

This found a small revival by MSCHF

Just thinking one step further: If I have capital, I control the ads and content.

Thank god the rich are interested in human rights.

Same in Paris.

“What do you mean I have to wait 4 minutes for the next metro?”

The EU fined Meta multiple billions. You can always do more, but it’s a start