so i’ve been using digital ocean’s app platform to deploy my 4 main static sites (personal, store, blog, make8bitart) because it comes with custom domain management that’s been extremely stable. it’s free for the first 3 static sites and then $3/month for every static site after that. i have the sites deploy when i merge changes into their respective github repos - but if anyone can recommend version control that’s not trying to force feed me AI, pls let me know.
i now have the daunting feat of speedrunning through several hundred apps made over the last 9 years because the fastly council of elders couldn’t even give us a week for each year the platform’s been running 
BUT i will go through each one! because i am not warren buffett and/or jd rockefeller in this economy, i will not be deploying every single site - instead i’m trying out a /glitch subdirectory on my personal site to move the apps i want live there; for example, i’ve already moved ~candlemakinginventory. i’ll miss the ability to edit in a portable live environment on glitch, but i’ve been enjoying using nova locally.
if i hit any node apps i absolutely need alive, i’ll probably just deploy a droplet running node and do a similar multi-app setup there - but i don’t think i’m going to need an active node container up in that way. if anyone has a recommendation for a way to run, for example, a bluesky bot for free, i’d love to know!