I use PIA (private internet access). I wonder why no one mentioned it yet.

I assume you never encountered a hard paywall then?

One should always optimize assets for the web, this includes svg as well.

For critical paths I use https://optimize.svgomg.net/ a svg file optimizer. Svgs that are coming directly from illustrator or sketch are getting better these days but this little tool is invaluable regardless.

I think you can run this local too

Hate to say it but imho trump would not let you leave. Is this something you guys are discussing with each other, I am genuinely interested.

I am german and I feel physical pain reading this code

Hast du dir schon mal Cloudflare Tunnel angeguckt? Ich bin nicht so fit bei Self Hosting, deswegen nutze ich das für kleinere private Projekte.