> Technically you still can. Practically? Without relying on big tech for protection, your small server will be shaken down by DDoS gangs operating from North Korea, and AI-assisted skiddies will exploit any vulnerability in a matter of hours like it happened with log4j, wp2shell, php2shell and a host of other memeable security incidents. Maintaining a server these days is nasty busywork if you don't want to end up with your user data exfil'd to the darknet.

You can avoid most of that with a simple static website. Even if you manage the web server and OS yourself. KISS is a lifesaver.

> Even if you manage the web server and OS yourself. KISS is a lifesaver.

That is not enough. Even "simple" web servers can and will be hacked - Apache, haproxy and nginx all have had their fair share. And that's before we get into the Linux kernel itself, see CVE-2026-98432 if you need a recent example.

It's simply gotten untenable ever since AI entered the picture.

Until it turns out your server is vulnerable to something like *sshole which you had no way to know about or defend against without formally verifying the whole OS.