The HN hug of death has never brought it down, since Github handles all of the scaling.
I actually recommend Gitlab pages. I prefer their allowance of private repos. I made a guide [1] on how to switch from Github to Gitlab pages. I use Gitlab for my static sites and Github for my source.
Yeah, imho, make something that generates static pages and then you have any host of options with (nearly) infinite scale -- s3/cloudfront, etc. And it's still pretty simple.
Email hn@ycombinator.com and they will change the link on the post
I think it's working now.
2020 and it’s still takes work to keep a website up, even if it’s simple. I feel your pain.