Discoverability? Uh... I think you may be dragging commercial concepts into this that don't have a place here. For a personal website people discover it when you link them to it. Or discover it 4 years later after google has indexed it and it happens organically. But you don't ever have to care about "discoverability". You're not trying to get a bunch of hits, or profit, or whatever.
A personal website is something you do for fun. If this personal website is serving as your resume to get hired or sell stuff, it's not a personal website. It's more commercial/profit crap. At that point, yeah, use all the cargo cult you want. Business want to see the tools and technologies they use demonstrated.
I've been hosting superkuh.com from my home PC for 20 years. When my IP changes (maybe once per year) I just log into my registrar when I notice it (it's okay if I don't notice for a day or two, no big deal) and update it.
A personal website is something you do for fun. If this personal website is serving as your resume to get hired or sell stuff, it's not a personal website. It's more commercial/profit crap. At that point, yeah, use all the cargo cult you want. Business want to see the tools and technologies they use demonstrated.
I've been hosting superkuh.com from my home PC for 20 years. When my IP changes (maybe once per year) I just log into my registrar when I notice it (it's okay if I don't notice for a day or two, no big deal) and update it.