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The cheapest solution I’ve found for static sites is an S3 bucket with Cloudfront sat in front of it. Costs next to nothing.

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Cheapest option I found is a Jekyll site deployed out of a GitHub repo (can be private) to Cloudlfare S̶i̶t̶e̶s̶ Pages. No cost at all even with a custom domain.

Cloudflare Pages, I think. I agree though, it costs nothing. They don't even have my card on file.

And nothing is free forever, but my sense is that this is going to stay free longer than most other free options.

Yep, CF Pages indeed! I agree with your sentiment. It always surprised me how much CF offers under their free tier and wouldn't shock me if they start pulling profitability levers and charging for many of these offerings.

Cloudflare Pages is great for static sites! I use it for a Hugo blog, and it "just works" - plus, deployments are really fast, like a few seconds.

It's all just so simple and fast that it reminds me of the days of SFTP'ing files to prod. Aaahhh.

Why add cloud flare to the mix?

You're right. GitHub offers all of this at no charge but your repo has to be public. Cloudlfare allows you to use a private repository.

Or use GitLab and you can use a private repo

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