Devops/infra engineer/SRE here. I can do a bit of coding as well.

That’s the thing. Cloudflare is very attractive for small projects or prototyping, due to its free plans. But as soon as you want to do something serious, Bunny is cheaper.

Skype is being discontinued in May. Does it solve the replacement problem? 🤔

“They bark, therefore we ride!”

https://www.codebasehq.com/ is another alternative. Sadly no free plan

There are managed Gitlab instances:

https://www.gitlabhost.com/ https://www.stackhero.io/en/services/GitLab/benefits

I agree that it is preferable to use existing alternatives like geizhals.eu. But better to use idealo to discover European alternatives than buying from Amazon.