I have never had an issue with SD-cards but if I would invest in a m.2 hat I would definitely use it for everything.

It’s faster and more reliable and disk space isn’t that expensive nowadays.

Agreed! I feel like there is an underlying question here. Like, did the OP get called out for not-really-selfhosting-because-VPS?
You do not need to define the word just because you want to host your own server for product X.

You can rent a vps for 4$ / month, Forgejo for server is open source.

Back then it was a place for us nerds, techies, early adopters.

Now it’s a place dominated by the rest of the world. Including all the bad stuff like politics, big corporations and ads.

It was nice for a while… We need a new place :-)

LOL phrased oddly? English is not my first language.

I thought it was common knowledge that paying for something (console) and owning it was not the same these days, so I just want to know what I am buying…

What is it?

I have no clue what partysite is.