Hosting your static site with AWS S3, Route 53, and CloudFront for free

Or just use Netlify or Github pages that also do that for free now and are as simple as pushing to your linked repository.

Netlify is an awesome service, it's amazing that it doesn't cost anything.

I push, they build.

I can specify versions, build parameters, etc, easy SSL certs, never noticed any down time, etc.

Granted my site sees like <100people/mo, but still -- for a personal/CV site, I don't think you can do much better.

Nice post. You can go one step further and automate most of the process with CloudFormation [1].

I also switched some time ago from Gitlab to CloudFront and S3 because it lets me optimize things that get you to 100% at Pagespeed Insights [2] such as Cache Control.

[1] https://correctme.ifiamwrong.com/posts/cloudfrontcloudformat... [2] https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?hl=e...

Neither supports IPv6 officially, though.

GitHub Pages actually had IPv6 support, but they removed it, because they added HTTPS support (that's what their support said). But I checked and the old IPv6 CDN endpoints actually still work, even with HTTPS.

Netlify actually has also promised IPv6 support "at the start of the year"[0], but I wouldn't count it.

[0] https://twitter.com/netlify/status/933104630925426688

Ignoring the party that is keeping your server up etc, don't most ISPs block 80/443?