I recently built fourpointo, a Flask web app for polytechnic students to manage assignments. Once it was working locally, I needed to get it live without paying for cloud hosting every month.
Then I realised I had an old, unused laptop which I was trying to find a purpose for. I figured it would be great to use it as a home server to host my website and it saves costs.
I wiped the laptop and went with Ubuntu Server since it's lightweight and widely used. There's plenty of documentation if I got stuck.
I then cloned fourpointo from my new laptop onto my server.
When developing fourpointo, I used Python's Flask library. However, Flask's built-in server is single-threaded and not designed to handle multiple requests at once. Gunicorn is a production-grade server that runs multiple workers so it can handle real traffic.
