I've self-hosted wordpress and it's fine, does the job, and there are a million and one free resources as well as paid ones out there. Can be a pain to maintain

I've self-hosted wordpress and it's fine, does the job, and there are a million and one free resources as well as paid ones out there. Can be a pain to maintain and there's always a risk of things going sideways with a bad plugin install or upgrade. If you are OK with self hosting then you are probably going to be OK with Jekyll & hosting on GitHub Pages. That's free, you can use a custom domain, and it's fast. There are a lot of Jekyll themes out there to make it look good too.