Well, it’s not that hard. Order 3 x VPS, follow this guide and you’ll be up and running within couple days. Also you do not really need a block every month from Day1, in fact if you cannot gather pledge or delegates, you don’t deserve it.
In my opinion what discourages delegators from small pools is the minimum flat fee of 340A per epoch.
For a saturated pool those 340A make a negligible fraction (1% or less) of total rewards, but for a small pool with 1 block minted, the same 340A reward for SPO eats up 30% of the total rewards.
Taking in account the recent Ada price soar I’d set the minimal flat fee to 60A.