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Really depends.

It’d be massively overkill for me, so even if it’s technically a “good value”, it doesn’t make sense to buy one if my cluster of $60 thinkcentres is chugging along without an issue (and I get HA).

On the other hand, if you need all that extra performance for something, then it’s probably a great buy (hence its popularity here).

I use beets to add synced lyrics to my library automatically.

To display them in the web browser interface, click the lyrics button (looks like a book).

Have you explored any other options?

Yeah. I briefly explored some other possibilities in the post, including a potential self-hosted option, but ultimately landed on CF as a practical compromise.

Creating a "maintenance" page for my self-hosted sites

I selfhost several public-facing sites, including my personal blog. I’ll be needing to relocate my servers soon, though, and I wanted something more “proper” to display in their place while the servers are offline.

I won’t repeat the whole post here (see link), but I ultimately set up a CF worker that I can enable with the flip of a switch whenever my server will be down.

It’s a temporary, hosted solution to a common self-hosting problem, so I think it still fits here… but no hard feelings if mods decide otherwise.

blog.k3can.us/posts/2026/jul/maintenancepage/