I run a portfolio and blog similar to your idea with Hugo on an old gaming PC with Proxmox and 25 other services, my family or I use daily.

For the use case, you talk about, a Rpi would be perfect, but if you have an old laptop you can repurpose that instead.

I argue that self hosting for the most part shouldn’t cost a dollar unless you want to. A dynamic DNS like duck DNS and a residential ISP are more than enough.

A simple Nginx reverse proxy on pi or Debian laptop to host Hugo built HTML and CSS would work flawlessly.

To prevent attacks, basic fail2ban on Nginx is a good start. Crowdsec being the next step and keep advancing.

Once you get started, the possibilities are endless and then you may need the exaggerated services, but not for text.

Good Luck OP !

This is the time to move your website to something other than WordPress or use free themes. I genuinely don’t want anyone’s website to end up like this: Overpaying me after using illegal plugins (I wrote this)

I did that.

And rightfully so, I was a 15 year old in a third world country with a beat up compaq computer to download movies overnight. I couldn’t seed cuz my father would find out I wasted the internet.

Today, I can seed and have a 26TB hard drive, I preserve old movies in my native language (Telugu) and seed them.

Do we need people to learn about seeding and ratios? Definitely. But I believe in

Today’s leechers are tomorrow’s seeders.

And don’t blame them.