Crowdsourcing indie webhosting?

I came across this link today and I was curious if anyone here knows the guy running it or anything about it: https://www.patreon.com/savetheoldweb

It seems like a weird case for crowdfunding to me but I’m wondering if I’m missing something.

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Never heard of this person or anything about this project.

I’m surprised they don’t know about providers like these:

And I find it odd that he mentions supporting FTP, but not SFTP in 2026. SFTP is not only much safer, because it works over SSH, but if SFTP is available then rsync because a viable option for deployment.

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Max from http://web1.0hosting.net/
https://web1.0hosting.net/asdc/ has information about who does what and what they do on our team.