If you time traveled someone from a decade ago that knows how to configure an Apache or NGinx server to today they would likely still be able to. It may not follow latest best practice, but at worst they'll use something retired, have to google it and be up and running in minutes.
Same with Spring/Java or .NET/ASP.NET Web API.
And you can still run a VPS or container that can handle significant traffic for free on many of the cloud platforms + migrating it is much much simpler.