For self-use author has a point, but for public-facing sites not so much, because:
- infra work is thankless (see below)
- outages will last long because you're unlikely to have failovers (for disk failures, etc.), plus the time to react to these (no point in being paged for hobby work)
- more importantly, malicious LLM scrapers will put your infra under stress, and
- if you host large executable you'll likely want to do things like banning Microsoft's IP address because of irresponsible GH Actions users [1] [2] [3]
In the end it is just a lot less stress to pay someone else to deal with infra; for example, when hosting static sites on GH Pages or CF Pages, and when using CF caching solutions.
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/28/microsofts_github_gmp...