like I said, mostly word of mouth and over the phone
now he's talking to me about nitpicky over dollar amounts lol
"I've dealt with my fair share
$200 vs $205/month, in one case"
but yeah, he's reliable and I've been hosting a MC server for about half a year on one of his spare machines with 0 downtime and 0 issues
which surprised me a ton, since in the past for a MC server I was running for a friend, there were so many issues with their servers getting moved and what not
edit: just checked my BL folders
my current one for coding is pretty slimmed down to mostly defaults, and is under 1 GB
but my old folder which is bloated with almost every addon in existence and about 4k screenshots, is only 13.7 GB
20 GB seems like a bit much