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Tbf, these days you don't even need to do the entire weight lifting of maintain your own website for the most part. I mean, we do are users at SDF, right?
You don't need your own domain to have your own site. Sure, it's ideal to have, but not necessary; all you need is a "community name provider" that you trust to remain trustable for as long as you care to maintain your webpage. For me, that could have been Geocities back in its time; now, well, it's SDF. ~~Neocities is tempting me tho~~
Buying your own domain I feel like it's oversold and overblown. Domains these days barely mean shit when it comes to security, authenticity or longevity (as we've seen with eg.: the entire .ml fiasco, or the fact that you can very perfectly get malware from domains like Steam's or Microsoft's).