Free static hosting served straight out of a GitHub repository.
Who it is for
For a project whose files already live in Git and whose author is comfortable there.
The catch
It is built for project and documentation sites. There are no forms, no functions, and no dashboard, so anything dynamic has to come from somewhere else.
Where it sits in the stack
GitHub Pages is filed under “Where the site actually lives” in the stack directory. Its label there is the same one at the top of this page: listed, not tested. I have read its pricing and mechanics and have not run a project on it, so this page describes it and stops short of recommending it. That distinction is the whole point of the directory.
What has changed about its pricing
Nothing, as far as this site has recorded. GitHub Pages has no entry in the price change log, which means either its pricing has held since this site started checking or nobody here has re-read it since the figure above was taken. The log distinguishes those two cases deliberately, and a tool with no entry is the weaker of them.
The alternatives in the same slot
These do the same job and sit in the same section of the directory.
- Netlify — i run this, has a free tier
- Cloudflare Pages — listed, not tested, has a free tier
- Neocities — listed, not tested, has a free tier
The whole stack, filterable, with the catch stated on every entry.
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