That seems like a lot of effort to go through

I create and destroy VM's all the time. It only takes a few minutes to set it back up and that's without any automation. Perhaps others share your view and I am the only one that does this. No sense in wasting money on a VM that will just sit idle and maybe get a hit or two per day from real people that is as I block most bots and all search engines [1].

[1] - https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20260606-How-To-Block-Som...