On the outside it’s sold as security, but what you really get is surveillance

There are hills in Amsterdam? gasp

Not amateurish at all, but good questions. I’m not confident enough to answer your second question, but on your first question: yes, you can use the hosting service you already have. Given that you are renting a VPS that is. It looks like Strato is calling this “hosting”. Don’t use their “WordPress hosting” package for this though, as it won’t allow you to install the instance software.

Even after reading both the blog and the website itself I still have no idea what this is supposed to be? Is it a standalone git client that tries to do things differently? Is it a GitHub alternative? I’m super confused

If you like it old-skool-style, wizordum just got released in early access. There’s a playable demo as well