I wrote this app last weekend mostly so that I could look at COVID-19 stats, but also as a learning exercise. I download data from John Hopkins, ingest it into a SQLite database and then have a couple of Python scripts to present an API to the front end. It is hosted on a Digitalocean droplet which costs me US$5.00 per month. Setup is easy - takes less than 10 minutes, and if you know Linux everything is pretty straightforward.
That's a pretty cool project. As a Sysadmin I know a bit of Python and how to use Rest APIs but would you mind pointing me in the right direction on how you present an API to the front end? I'd like to learn how to build a website like this.
I also use Cloudflare as a DNS (free tier).
https://martin.schweitzer.id.au/covid19/