I do think that it's possible that he's running a needlessly expensive instance as a bit of a homelab so that he can put AWS, Wordpress, Cloudflare, and whatever internal services he's running across the three VPS servers, all on his resume.
Or maybe he just doesn't really know what he's doing, doesn't understand how much money he's spending on this, doesn't really understand the value of a dollar, and kinda just... let the costs get to this point.