> Is the LLM paying for hosting in this scenario, too? Is the LLM signing up for the new hosting provider that supports PHP after initially deploying to github pages?

It's an implementation detail. The user doesn't care. OpenClaw can buy its own hosting if you ask it to.

> Feels like the non-programmer is going to care a little bit about paying for 5 different hosting providers because the LLM decided to generate their burger website in PHP, JavaScript, Python, Ruby and Perl in successive iterations.

There's this cool new program that the kids are using. It's called Docker. You should check it out.