The hobby-project graveyard you can afford to keep alive

You have eleven half-finished side projects. The chess engine. The recipe scraper. The thing that texts you when your stocks move. On Heroku that's eleven dynos at $5-7 each. On Render that's eleven web services. On DigitalOcean that's three droplets you're shuffling configs across at 2am.

On Hoody, it's one $29 bare metal box with eleven containers on it. Ten of them are idle 99% of the time. Idle costs almost nothing: cloned from one base they share their disk blocks, the shared kernel's page cache loads their identical stacks once, and a project nobody visits burns no CPU. Eleven containers cost barely more than one.

The chess engine that nobody uses still runs. The texter that fires twice a year still fires. You stop killing projects because you stopped paying rent on each one.

The graveyard isn't a hosting bill anymore. It's a folder.