What tools and/or resources can I use to start such a project?

I’ve been putting some research into it but besides getting conflicting views, I always get the feeling the advices being offered feel exaggerated for what I have in mind.

My intention is to solely publish text.

I was thinking on getting a RPi, perhaps an older model, to use it as host. My idea is to have the public facing machine completely isolated from my daily use computer and network, so that in the event the site gets attacked I can simply re-upload everything and be done.

For the website creation itself I’ve been thinking about using Hugo to start but in the background learn some HTML and build a simple site by myself to replace the original.

What am I not considering or misjudging here?

Are there any other tools I should be looking into?

Any thoughts on this are welcome and apreciated.