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.
I have been using Kagi for a month. Really liking it so far! I just subscribed to their basic plan. Much better results than DDG.
Birds were the only redeeming factor at this point!
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?
While doing a Climate Watch bird survey this week for National Audubon Society (looking for the Lesser Goldfinch) I got surprised by this adorable Nine-banded Armadillo trotting across the road! Such a treat to see it wandering across a bridge.
This project leverages a BirdNET-Pi station I set up late last year. This digital counter pulls the latest daily count and species heard by the microphone in my backyard.
The most common species to visit and chirp is the House Finch. This bird blows any other species out of the water noise-wise.
I made a write-up on the project and how I programmed everything (and if you want to see a video of it).
There are so many! The PlayDate and some of the clamshell ones look really neat!