i wonder why this tiny website costs a lot per month. wouldnt it fit np on a free tier of Pages or Cloudflare. Id volunteer to migrate it from wordpress or whatever they run on.
This was my first thought as well. I wonder if he hired someone to build it and is paying some kind of monthly maintenance fee. Anyone here could contact this guy and offer to put the page behind a (probably ~free) CDN.
My guess is that he wants to be compensated for the time he spent. There's a lot of content on that site, and making a bit of money is a good motivation to keep updating the site