There are so many! The PlayDate and some of the clamshell ones look really neat!

The basic $6/month option should work. You could probably run several sites on one.

Digital Ocean Droplet, Wordpress (with Generate Press block theme), Self-hosted Plausible Analytics for traffic stats.

✨ Black highlighter magic! ✨

I got to the Google maps step and was like screw this!

🤣

I choose to believe smoking cats.

Was the previous owner a smoker?

If you were running your own (even single-user) instance of lemmy, you could defederate with any instance and still participate in others as normal.

Beautiful! Did you see or hear a lot of wildlife while there?