Emphasis on individual online space, so not a forum/federated platform, more like maybe a blog or portfolio or anything else more experimental. Suppose the full gamut of tech familiarity from unfamiliar to familiar.
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What advice and cautionary tales would you give on setting up one’s own individual online space with today’s tools?
Yeah it’s the same thing. If you need to connect to a database a lot that usually is more expensive, but static site generators are cheap to host.