[1996]

Sure! here are my counter thoughts: What if your site changes every 5 minutes, and is about 100Mb?

12x24x100= lots of mb per day

S3 costs (if only for the bandwidth) will be greater than a server with a fair share unlimited connection

Also, cloudfront non free plans will kill you - again because of the bandwith.

[giobox]

> What if your site changes every 5 minutes, and is about 100Mb?

This is probably an exceptional rate of change for the _vast_ majority of static sites.

[bigpicture]

> This is probably an exceptional rate of change for the _vast_ majority of static sites.

I also doubt that many static sites have much "overhead" related to maintaining nginx config files and Let's Encrypt certificates.

[outworlder]

Sure, but then there's the whole overhead of maintaining a server.

[ramses0]

Clarify this: "The difference between zero servers and one server is much larger than the difference between 100 servers and 101 servers"

The person you're talking to is likely thinking of the "100=>101" case, not the "0=>1" case.

[1996]

Maintaining a server is not complicated nowadays, with ansible. I have a few dozens, some of them don't need any admin for years (like linode), the others have debian testing and ansible to deploy matching configurations and keep up with the updates