Gallery Hosting Setup (Help)

I am attempting to set up a small gallery host for a niche community of photographers who deliver in the USA and the Middle East. Current solutions aren't holding up well enough. My initial idea was to run a VPS with S3 storage as a backend using two different buckets then route the correct one based on IP address. Alternatively, I considered using Bunny's storage and placing their CDN in front of it, or putting a CDN in front of the S3 bucket itself instead of geo-replicating the S3 storage. I would run all this using some sort of open-source gallery frontend like, Immich, Piwigo, Urocissa etc. I've been experimenting with this for a while if anyone is willing to help point me in the right direction. I am feeling over my head on this; however,I think it could be a cool project. Cant really offer pay but if your interested please hit me up. This is day 14 of #100DaysToOffload