Comment by lolinder
5 days ago
The point is that because of the way they structured their blog it would be trivial to do exactly this if they ever needed to. There's no complicated export from a locked in application, you just move your blog files from one host to another (maybe to your own VPS).
The overhead of switching from Cloudflare to a VPS if they needed to is really not that much larger than switching from one VPS to another, so they likely figured it wasn't worth paying $30/yr to own the whole stack, as long as they architected it such that they could own the whole stack if they needed to.
Similarly, Obsidian is just a markdown editor. So you're not even relying on their free tier; you could use any other markdown editor on the planet with the same results. Or any cloud file syncing tool.