I used wordpress

I already had hosting from my other websites, so all I needed to do was buy the domain

installed wordpress, found a theme, edited it heavily
and that’s about it for setting it up

as time went on had to move to a better server and the theme has been modified so hard it’s unrecognizable anymore lol

not that setting up WP is hard but I used to do a lot of WP theme design/selling/freelancing a few years before SN so I knew all about the process