Eh, self hosting stuff is a hassle and I'd be willing to bet most people are more concerned about the time/reliability than the cost. I use gh pages for the st

Eh, self hosting stuff is a hassle and I'd be willing to bet most people are more concerned about the time/reliability than the cost. I use gh pages for the static parts of my own site even though I have a web server (which I use for quickly sharing files and whatnot) because GitHub is less likely to leave things broken than I am.