@trib cool, i'll do some more rec'ing then :)
i was drawn to Foundry because it's pay once for a perpetual license. at first i ran it from my laptop, but latency was too big for my players' content so we moved to managed hosting at Sqyre, each contributing part of the (admittedly not high) cost.
btw it may be that if i return now to self-hosting it'd work better because i optimised some stuff as well as moved to a different ISP, but if the current solution ain't broke i won't try to fix it.