Comment by shric
21 hours ago
The key here is “coworker”. He has an obligation to do reasonable things due to being employed by someone and it affecting others.
This is completely different. When it’s a person blog and a personal VPS it’s affecting nobody but that person.
And that's A-OK for them if that person likes more work with more headaches for a solution that costs more and performs worse. (Although less OK for everyone else when their VPS gets compromised and made part of a botnet or otherwise used for cybercrime.)