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.

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