In 2008-2011 I was working on some public websites- some of them were even "nation-wide" "important". And I felt confident running them my moderate systems administration skills, on simple platforms, with reasonable hardware.
(For two specific projects with important customers, we did pick overpriced and overprovisioned hardware and hosting from a "serious" company, but outside that, it wasn't very different from what you would do for personal stuff.)
But today looking at a *private* service I'm running, correlating with my experiences running non-professional publicly exposed services and...
I wouldn't feel comfortable at all running the same kind of websites I was working on in 2008-2011. At the very least, I would have to rely on Cloudflare or others that I do not like for "protection".
Likely it's just that I've become disconnected from running public websites, but I think the world is changed in a sad way :(
