it wasn’t a criticism of your project, it’s just a layer of security for these companies. you asked for a raise and they apparently responded promptly.
In general everyone should use 1-2 servers, 10 is not exactly a low number. Even in the most boring players like AWS, using 1 month and paying the bill will already give you higher limits.
I bought a Morefine N100 recently, it’s a great device. Support 1 NVMe and 1 SSD 2.5, you can use both combined in RAID and even backup options in the cloud or on an external disk through the USB3.0 ports.
Quicksync for Plex/tdarr works great on the latest version of Debian Bookworm.