[flanbiscuit]

If you're just hosting purely static assets why not use a free hosting with GitHub pages and a custom domain? It comes with free SSL (now) and I assume it could handle all sorts of traffic spikes. I might not be aware of any major downsides so I'm curious why people decide to use a paid (even if it's super cheap) option. I believe also Gitlab offers similar options.

[thamer]

I've had poor experiences in the past with GitHub pages, with pages failing to build or hosting being terribly slow. This was years ago though, things may have changed since then.

That said, I can still count 9 occurrences of degraded performance for a total of 16 hours and 40 minutes in the past 90 days for GitHub pages on https://www.githubstatus.com/ – as a matter of fact performance is shown as degraded right now. That's pretty terrible.