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Just use Netlify, it's free, you can hook it up to a GitHub repository and they'll handle your Let's Encrypt certs for you.

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Just use Github pages, supports TLS, CNAME and is free.

Netlify does DNS and can serve from private repos for free. Not sure if GitHub changed their policy, but last time I looked, if you wanted to serve from a private repo, you needed to have a Pro plan.

That's not true (at least not anymore). Now that Github offers free unlimited private repos, there's no difference between public/private ones.

No, it is still true. From https://help.github.com/en/github/working-with-github-pages

> GitHub Pages is available in public repositories with GitHub Free, and in public and private repositories with GitHub Pro, GitHub Team, GitHub Enterprise Cloud, and GitHub Enterprise Server. For more information, see "GitHub's products."

Ah, I guess it's because I'm on Github Student.

Cool, that's good to know.

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