The last time I’ve rented a Minecraft server was probably over 10 years ago, and as far as I can tell, at the time having to upload stuff through ftp was normal.

Although reading this thread has also taught me that I know nothing about how deployment works and I need to catch up on that.

Why?

Can you elaborate on the Germany part? I am from Germany and I tried to look this up and found nothing. The main thing I found was:

Die Rechtslage in Deutschland – Ist Spenden sammeln für private Zwecke erlaubt?

In Deutschland ist das Crowdfunding für private Zwecke erlaubt. Es gibt keinerlei gesetzliche Einschränkungen – du brauchst dir also keine Gedanken zu machen, ob du zuerst einen Verein gründen musst oder einen Gemeinnützigkeitsnachweis benötigst, um online Spenden zu sammeln.

From GoFundMe

So it sounds like you can receive private donations for anything no problem. Obviously it’s taxable but that should be obvious, and true in most places.

The graph shows the trend over several years, the drop-down shows you a list of the most popular languages of that quarter.

Now I am concerned. When I say “correct me if I’m wrong”, I usually mean that literally.