Well that escalated…semi-quickly: just rented some space on a shared server.
I also stumbled upon a moribund WP account that I guess I never actually started using.
I haven’t had time or space to get far beyond the most basic nameserver pointing, SFTP-ing, pass wording, and general -ing of the whole setup, but we’ll get along in time.
Maybe I’ll blow my own mind and have a Hugo site, a WP site (basically comes with the hosting), a Jekyll site, a Haeckel site, a scribbly hand-written site, etc.