I was always a pile it hot composter. As it began to cool, I would flip it with a fork. I as always too ambitious with volume to use bins.
I did not like small piles. I did not feel like they had enough thermal mass. I never had them less than 5' x 5' x 4' high. Usually they started around 6'...
I like to hot compost my poultry bedding to "clean it".
BUT, hot composting is not necessary to composting. It is only a faster way to accomplish it wit the added benefit of some killed weed seeds, and misc.
Tilling it in a season ahead is effective. Trenching it. Or just letting it compost...