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For static sites hosting on AWS S3 is super cheap, plus with Cloudfront CDN in front you can be sure your site is being delivered to the user by a server near him. It's not 100% free but still very cheap for static websites[1]

[1] https://medium.com/@sbuckpesch/setup-aws-s3-static-website-h...

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At some point, I'm going to convert my web site (a neglected blog) to a static site. When I do, I'll likely go the S3 + Cloudfront route and retire the aging physical server it's running on.

I've looked into this a couple of times in the past and that's the method I kept coming up with. I really want to do it but I've had trouble motivating myself to redo the hundreds of blog posts currently in WordPress.

There are plugins for Wordpress which export sites as static sites. I personally used SimplyStatic [1] with success for a rather simple blog, but it seems development has ceased. While writing this comment I also found WP Static [2], perhaps one of those two works for you.

[1]: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/

[2]: https://wordpress.org/plugins/static-html-output-plugin/

You can try using an exporter to see how much more work you'll have to do to make the new static version work to your liking.

https://gohugo.io/tools/migrations/#wordpress https://import.jekyllrb.com/docs/wordpress/

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