Hello everyone,

My field is not Web Development but data science. With that in mind I have the following questions.

I have developed a machine learning model in Python's SKlearn. I would like to build a website where users provide inputs for predictions (e.g. their age) and output some prediction (e.g. expected income) .

My objective is not just to make a "dashboard". I could easily use Python's Streamlit or R's Shiny to deploy my model and make it accessible by anyone. I want to use this as an opportunity to learn about Web Development and build a website from the ground up to solve this problem and have full control over it. For instance , I would like to be able to have ads on the website and control how many predictions are requested by each user per minute.

So what would be a step-by step clear approach/'syllabus' to do this ? What specific libraries and tools would I need to use in each step ? Where should the model be "stored" ? Where should I host my website and make it call the model for predictions ? How can I make it safe so that my model building code is private ? What are the most cost-effective solutions ?

Further details : I know some CSS, HTML and JS. Never created any API. Not much experience in deploying website or web app.

Thanks in advance.