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)

That’s the point. It taught me things that I wouldn’t learn if it weren’t for that scared feeling. I agree that some sensitive things are better off my server.

You should start small and keep only things you want to be public, and services under basic logins. First logins, maybe admin admin but slowly you will get better and also place fail2ban and crowdsec. Once you have enough confidence and years of service on your belt. You can trust it with sensitive files under heavy guard.

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.

'22 CS Grad like you who took the masters route. Let me tell you this tendency only gets amplified. I work with cool interdiscplinary projects showing off my experience and educating normies, not doing any DSA although I am gonna graduate in May, no job and have nightmares but still not doing anything to improve.

Take small steps towards the job seeking OP. You or I will not ever land a job magically out of nowhere, keep working on it and fail a few interviews too. You are better than many people and will make it big time.

It’s great. When people ask me how old I am I just ask them which year is this and repeat the last two digits.