@fakenickels no but at that point getting your own machine and installing GitHub Runner would be significantly cheaper which is why the cost per year is used
before GHA it wasn't uncommon to get yourself a VPS or Dedi running something like Jenkins and GHA was more cost effective when introd
PHP did the markup and server code mixing 20 years ago and collectively decided its a bad idea as it becomes unmaintanable pretty fast.
Now that gets further complicated by also mixing with frontend-stack complexity...
Can somebody explain to me why that is a good idea now?