internet

Many services to build things on the internet are really cheap to get started. Many even offer a free tiers that are more than enough for small projects to get started with, for hobby projects often more than enough to keep running them indefinitely.

These cheap prices can however be deceiving. Once you start having more data, more traffic and a lot of requests the price can go up really fast. The scale of things on the internet is huge. 

New content is created in the internet at an ever increasing rate. At the same time a part of it is getting lost and forgotten. 

I have been creating content to the net over two decades. Many of those early websites I made during the later half of nineties and early 2000's aren't available on the net anymore. Some of those I might have saved up on some old backups. On old disks and cd's that might or might not still work.

Putting anything on the web, be it your own hobby project or huge corporate service requires using many different services provided by almost as many different providers. Aside the obvious price, features and other technical aspects there are other things to consider as well.

I won't go into details or list any vendors as that seems to always ignite the flame wars. That's the kind of issue you need to live with when choosing your providers. There is no single point of view. Something wrong can be found from each one of them, their policies, activities or ties.

Nothing is more frustrating in the internet than finding an interesting article, starting to read it, get hooked and then hit the paywall. It was all just a teaser. Alternatives aren't much better, but ads and such are still tolerable as long as they are not too intrusive.

I understand people need to get paid. To write, edit and publish all those texts. Websites need to be created to display them. And those in turn need to be hosted somewhere.