That's similar to how I used to do it it but I got tired of paying for servers.... plus this approach let me play some "buzzword bingo"
BTW my first Internet facing thing was a CGI-BIN Perl script delivering call records for telcos, way back in 1995. I've been cutting code for 35+ years. Never feel old!
I have several almost-zero-traffic sites running from an Odroid (ARM board) at home. The largest site has only 30k requests in the Apache log for October, but it's a photo gallery, so there's 150GB of pictures behind it. There's also a backup of my desktop, which is another 2TB or so.
I set its ancestor up when I was about 16, using Debian -- and invested a fair amount of time in it, learning a lot.
When I bought it in 2013, the cost of cloud storage for a few years was far greater than the cost of the board + a hard drive, but setting up the obscure hardware took more effort than I expected. Nevertheless, I have no plan to switch to cloud services. I like owning my own stuff, and keeping the flexibility to add whatever service I need on the network at home is very useful. For example, I can SSH into it, and control my fancy central heating system, and a while back I added a UPNP media server, which can stream to a Chromecast.
BTW my first Internet facing thing was a CGI-BIN Perl script delivering call records for telcos, way back in 1995. I've been cutting code for 35+ years. Never feel old!