Deploying pG2 as a static website

[nk9]

I have a bunch of photos which I want to share with folks around the world using pG2, but they are only going to change infrequently. I don't want to host them on a computer at my house, and getting a VM to host a Docker container is either expensive (AWS), time-consuming to set up and maintain (OCI) or requires long startup times (Render) when users visit for the first time.

What I really want is a static deployment of pG2, with everything (code, db, images) contained in a folder that I can just throw on Netlify and send people a link to. Before I put any work into figuring this out, I wanted to ask if anyone else had done something similar. I understand that pG2 relies on the disk for Truth, but given that everything is saved to the database, I am hoping a static website mode is possible, or at least feasible with some work.

(This post, for example, describes one way to create a static PWA with Angular.)