I hesitated to go through the hassle of setting this up because I was worried such a low-end VM wouldn’t be able to handle ~10 users.

Sounds like any of the $5/month VMs from the likes of DO, Linode, etc should handle this. Luckily there is a small hoster with a data center near me with similar specs/price. Their free offering on AWS works fine but it would be nice to get lower latency and have my own domain.

Thanks for sharing!