[ratorx]

The best “I just want to serve HTML” workflow I’ve found is the Netlify/GitHub Pages workflow, as long as you consider version control useful.

I can see two downsides to using a VM. 1) You need to update it. 2) Your website goes down if your VM goes down. Do these matter? I’d say 1) is moderately important and 2) depends on your website.

Using Netlify fixes these issues (but introduces other potential problems). Does that make it “demonstrably better”? Depends. I’m not you, so I don’t know any pain points or annoyances you have or what you consider important. At the end of the day it doesn’t make a difference to the actual website.

That said, it is very quick to try. Why not spend an hour or so and see if it’s worth it for yourself?

[js4ever]

Netlify is down 5-10 min each day since the last few days ... at this point I switched back to my VPS for better reliability ...