miss phant

Besides other pages alternatives you could try a cheap vps. They start as low as $10/year and any will be plenty for a static site. It’s also fun to play around with hosting other stuff. lowendbox.com has some good listings.

I put off docker for a long time for similar reasons but what won me over is docker volumes and how easy they make it to migrate services to another machine without having to deal with all the different config/data paths.

I believe Let’s Encrypt only allows wildcard certs for DNS challenges so it’s not really in the scope of Nginx; but I haven’t used other web servers, do they implement that?

Edit: Looked into Caddy, it seems to have a plugin system for DNS providers, that’s pretty slick. I can’t see that ever happening for Nginx they seem very opinionated in wanting to be unopinionated unfortunately. I’m still sad they rejected the PR to implement prefers-color-scheme for default error pages.