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While I was struggling with protecting my mom's site from the bot swarm I kept asking everyone who is still in the industry how small sites who don't have a kid with a computer science degree survive and the answer was pretty much "they don't" and that's so grim

Yup. I help out a non-profit and it was going offline multiple times a day. Finally after much tinkering I've got it staying up, but to your point - I'm a senior software dev with a ton of devops experience giving my time away for free.