i admit, i'm not very well-versed with coding and related ephemera, so this might not be a solution to your problems, but have you ever considered neocities to host your website? you only need to pay if you want more than one website, and it's been very easy for me to set up personally.

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~ss wrote:

Neocities seems like a great starting point, but as I mentioned with write.as in the post, as more of a programmer I struggle to give up that finer grained control, I don’t want to work within the walls of a platform like that

~yuke wrote:

that works. it's also possible to make one directly on the midnight pub, too.

for example, here's the one i made (very scuffed): https://yuke.midnight.pub/

you just need to add the respective html / css / whatever files you want in Account > Manage Site