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If the intention was to learn how to work with servers and experiment with Ansible and Caddy, that's fine. Otherwise hosting a static site on a VPS is just overkill, from the initial setup process for a VPS (ssh config, unattended upgrades, firewall) followed by installing Caddy and using Ansible.

It's easier (and free) to just host it on Github pages or Gitlab pages and use Cloudflare as a proxy.

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Two other free options I saw in a recent thread here are Netlify and Firebase hosting. Firebase looked particularly attractive as it provides a CDN as well as config driven control of things like redirects, headers, etc.

+1 Netlify.

I've really liked it for https://blog.statusok.com and https://statusok.com

GitHub webhook deploy flow, one-click SSL, 301 redirects and other rewrite support, CDN seems pretty good.

-1 Netlify

I found the netlify was slower than github pages and surge.sh according to google's speed tests.

Netlify also wants complete access to your github account. You either need to make a separate account or give them access to all of your repos.

GitHub doesn't offer anything more granular than read/write all repos in their app permissions matrix.

I understand that, but that doesn't excuse the fact I have to give them complete access to my repos.

I've always disliked the idea of using Github/Gitlab pages as it stops you serving over HTTPS. You can put Cloudflare in front to do HTTPS, but I still dislike having a proxy MITM all traffic to my website.

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