100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static site
Static sites served from the filesystem directly through any reasonable webserver are always going to be quick. 100k hits per month is nothing and a hackernews spike should not even be noticed unless you are serving up video or something large.<p>My site sits on a $5 DO droplet and I have never even come close to hitting any kind of limit despite the occasional traffic spike.<p>Dynamic content management systems are a convenience for the developer/maintainer of the site but push additional requirements onto the hosting CPU (and the client for javascript heavy sites). The cost of these requirements is often not clear but usually much larger than you might expect.