As of writing this, the main site is down, and the blog has missing image links. Why do people host static sites on anything besides s3 (or similiar)? It's di

As of writing this, the main site is down, and the blog has missing image links. Why do people host static sites on anything besides s3 (or similiar)? It's dirt cheap, (almost) always works, and can handle any traffic spike you can hope to receive. Instead, simple static sites seem to crash and burn when receiving spikes in traffic. I do not understand it.