I set up cheap and realiable hosting for this site through Amazon Web Service's Lightsail, which offers fairly cheap virtual private servers. The steps:

  • Sign up for a VPS through Amazon LightSail. I went for a Bitnami instance on the cheapest plan.
  • Select a static IP, then make sure that your domain provider (in my case, Google Domains), forwards your URl to the static IP.
  • Download the private key provided by Lightsail. 
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    brew cask install osxfuse
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    brew install sshfs
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    cp LightSailDefaultPrivateKey-us-...pem ~/.ssh/
    You can then correctly set the permissions for the key (such that only you can read it) then log in to your Lightsail instance with the following SSH command 
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    chmod 400 ~/.ssh/LightsailDefaultPrivateKey-us-...pem
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    ssh -i ~/.ssh/LightsailDefaultPrivateKey-us-...pem bitnami@www.tommy-york.com
    And also then mount the remote server as a local OS X / fuse drive with this command: 
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    sudo sshfs -o debug,sshfs_debug,loglevel=debug,allow_other,defer_permissions,IdentityFile=/Users/tyork/.ssh/LightsailDefaultPrivateKey-us...pem bitnami@www.tommy-york.com:/ /Users/tyork/Desktop/Lightsail/data
    Note that this command has a debug commands enabled, which should allow you to easily troubleshoot. Note, however, that there's a lot of debug info that comes up.