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I guess the reason to ask about monetization is because you want to know how long a host is going to exist. Knowing how they plan to make money is a part of knowing the answer to that. As you say, it used to be good enough to have a space and accept there was an ad banner…but if no banner, then how?

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What's funny is when you ask that same question of a tech startup they simply say growth is what matters not revenue.

CloudFlare has been losing money for ages. I use it but seemingly everyone is sure it'll last forever.

That's the beauty of static websites, you don't need to care. If it was full fledged stack-enabled apps for an important function then yeah, sure.

With static, if it dies tomorrow you take the raw html files and move it elsewhere. Sure, it's an inconvenience, but it's the same as to why you don't use a second hand eBay server for commercial piece of kit. I learnt that the hard-way.

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