I’m currently using Astro for that. You can write the pages in markdown, html or one of the many js frameworks. It also allows you to mix them.
By default it generates static websites with out any js, but it allows you to add js where needed. Optional server side features are wip, if you decide to need them later on.
They also have pre made themes on their website if you don’t feel like writing css.
My solution is to create a docker network with the macvlan driver connected to a bridge interface on the host. Then you make the database listen on the bridge or just leave it on all interfaces. Don’t forget to configure the ips.
I can share my config later.
If you are ok with learing something, then I suggest renting a VPS, its your own part of a computer in a data center. I had one from a local provider that cost 7€/month for 6 cores, 18gb ram and 256gb ssd storage, way cheaper than any mc server provider Ive seen. The thing is you have to do a lot yourself, but there are great tutorals on how to run mc servers on linux. You can run something like Lodestone and have a webui for your servers, but you dont have to.
ZFS doesn’t require lots of RAM, more RAM just improves the caching (ARC) it can do. You can set ZFS to use all unused RAM as ARC, so it doesn’t interfere with other services running on the same PC. I ran ZFS with lots of VMs on an old office PC with 16GB RAM and it was still able to max out a 10gig nic.