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Good point. I hadn't seen / used github pages before, and it looks like they let you set up a custom domain so might be a comparable solution.

I use github pages with jekyll and I'm pretty satisfied with it.

I have an additional wrinkle - I have a jekyll plugin I wrote that I want to use, so I have to run jekyll on my own machine and then commit the plain html output to a separate repository. Once it was set up though it doesn't look much different though, just one extra step (running ./push_site_live.sh) after I'm done.

Another alternative is also just hosting directly off S3, which, combined with cloudfront, should eliminate any possibility of folding.

Because you can't use plugins (RSS, Read More, etc)