Does anyone know if this is cheaper or more expensive than it used to be?

Any thoughts on the services that make hosting a blog on IPFS easier?

Services like https://dappling.network, https://spheron.network, https://fleek.co, etc?

I've seen some DeFi protocols use IPFS to add some resiliency to their frontends. If their centralized frontend with vercel or whatever is down, they can direct users to their IPFS/ENS entrypoint.

What is the use case of this exactly? I've mostly tested API requests through fetch requests in the browser. What's the utility of using a standalone tool like this?

The objective is to create an exceptionally customizable, scalable, and adaptable devtool for APIs without compromising the developer experience (drawing inspiration from the versatility of VSCode)

Fetch is fine to test a quick API response but It's not for team collaboration and API management at large scale. Firecamp is aiming to solve the each problem occurs at each API development lifecycle like Design, Build, Document, Publish, Collaboration etc. Here your API Collection will be the single source of truth for entire team and all connected services like monitoring and CI/CD etc. However its futuristic. Currently in phase-1, You can say Its VSCode but for APIs.

Not recently but my friends account was locked a few months ago and he was never able to recover it.

Really?

I've been using it to recruit and if I didn't have access that would be detrimental to my career.

Weird, having trouble reproducing. I'm looking into it

Amazing.